The health minister for Wales during the pandemic said the fact his WhatsApp messages from the time are missing is “a point of embarrassment”.
Vaughan Gething, who is now the Welsh government’s economy minister, told the UK Covid inquiry that his personal and professional WhatsApp messages happened to be wiped when he got a new phone in 2022.
“I certainly do regret the fact that all those messages aren’t available to you because you could see them and satisfy yourself that all of the information there is consistent with all the information in the records you do have in front of you – it’s a point of embarrassment,” he said. “WhatsApp wasn’t used to make decisions and it wasn’t used to circumvent processes within the government.”
