Wales was “unlikely” to have approved of Rishi Sunak’s flagship Eat Out to Help Out scheme had its government been consulted, the country’s former health minister has said.
Vaughan Gething today told the UK Covid inquiry his government had no input into the scheme, which partially subsidised restaurant prices during August 2020 and encouraged indoor socialising.
Patrick Vallance, the UK’s top scientific adviser during the pandemic, told the inquiry’s second module last year that the scheme was “highly likely to have” increased the number of Covid deaths.
