What A Hoot - No Notes, No Minutes, No Records!
SNP ministers often fail to take proper records of important meeting, eg Scotland's ghost ferries contract.
So it's encouraging to see two sets of notes appearing after Nicola Sturgeon's with a state department official.
Wendy Sherman's note says they talked about climate change, while Nicola tries to big up the meeting with all sorts of issues outside of her FM job description.
What a hoot!
Government By Gang - No Notes, No Records, No Minutes (April 19, 2022)
Professional civil servants
SNP - No Notes, No Records, No Fault, No Blame (July 13, 2021)
From the private lobbying meetings between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, to the Rangers tax fraud fiasco, to the unrecorded dinner engagement with Sanjeev Gupta and Lex Greensill the hallmark of the SNP is always the same - no notes, no records, no fault, no blame.
No Notes, No Records, No Explanation (April 14, 2021)
SNP MP David Linden tries to justify SNP Minister Fergus Ewing having a private dinner meeting with steel billionaire Sanjeev Gupta, controversial banker Lex Greensill and two of their colleagues.
No officials were present, no notes were taken and no records exist to explain the reason for the meeting or its outcome.
During an unrecorded dinner with Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta, Fergus Ewing, a rural economy secretary, had no officials with him - TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
No officials were present, no notes were taken and no records exist to explain the reason for the meeting or its outcome.
Fergus Ewing’s dinner with Greensill and Gupta prompts call for inquiry
During an unrecorded dinner with Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta, Fergus Ewing, a rural economy secretary, had no officials with him - TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
By Tom Eden - The Times
An SNP minister’s unrecorded dinner with Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta has sparked calls for an investigation into whether he broke the ministerial code.
Fergus Ewing, rural economy secretary in the Scottish government, dined with the banker, the steel billionaire and two of their senior colleagues at one of Glasgow’s top restaurants in 2017. A freedom of information request by the Sunday Mail has revealed that the minister had no officials with him, no notes were taken, and the government claims to have no emails, texts or phone records about the meeting.
An SNP minister’s unrecorded dinner with Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta has sparked calls for an investigation into whether he broke the ministerial code.
Fergus Ewing, rural economy secretary in the Scottish government, dined with the banker, the steel billionaire and two of their senior colleagues at one of Glasgow’s top restaurants in 2017. A freedom of information request by the Sunday Mail has revealed that the minister had no officials with him, no notes were taken, and the government claims to have no emails, texts or phone records about the meeting.
