Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond said he did not remember a policy of deleting informal messages during his time in government.
Appearing before the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, both Mr Salmond’s successor, Nicola Sturgeon, and her deputy, John Swinney, said they had been advised by private office staff to delete informal messages after salient points had been recorded on the Government’s information retention system.
But Mr Salmond, who said he had checked with former ministers Kenny MacAskill and Alex Neil, claimed such advice was not the policy of his government.
Appearing before the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster, Mr Salmond said: “I am not aware of any such policy – I would have thought I would have had to sign off any such policy.
“Looking at what John said … he seemed to refer to some advice he had from his civil servants or private office.
“It is possible that there was such advice through a private office, but certainly no general government policy, nothing I signed off and I was totally unaware of it.”
Former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond slams Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross for wrongly accusing him of being in Government during the delay of two CalMac ferries.
“I don’t know what he’s taking for his breakfast, but clearly it’s not doing him any good.”
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