The notebooks are at the centre of an extraordinary tug of war between the Cabinet Office and Baroness Hallett's team over how much highly sensitive government documentation should be released from Whitehall to the inquiry 🔴 Exclusive from janemerrick23
over how much highly sensitive government documentation should be released from Whitehall to the inquiry.during official government meetings in the two years from 1 January 2020, when the first Covid cases were emerging in Wuhan, China.
It is not known whether the notebooks will be unredacted, as demanded by Lady Hallett, as vast sections of the notes are understood to be irrelevant to her investigations.Existence of the notebooks emerged earlier this week in documents issued by the Covid Inquiry, which is asking for more evidence before opening its first public hearings next month.
The Cabinet Office is refusing to hand over these messages unredacted as they contain information “unambiguously irrelevant” to Lady Hallett’s inquiry.
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