Mark Drakeford has tried to defend former health minister Vaughan Gething's failure to read a major report into how ready UK was for pandemic before Covid.
Last week Mr Gething, who was health minister throughout the pandemic but is now minister for the economy, appeared before the UK Covid Inquiry. While giving evidence Mr Gething made the embarrassing admission that he had never read the report into Exercise Cygnus.
This was a three-day simulation exercise carried out by the UK Government in October 2016 to estimate the impact of a hypothetical influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom. It found serious shortcomings in how ready we were to deal with this kind of scenario.
