Representatives of the Corona Commission expressed last week that they did not have sufficient access to the Government Offices' documentation on the corona pandemic.
This includes minutes and notes from the crisis group The Group for Strategic Coordination meetings.
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According to Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S), no minutes have been written as no decisions were made at the meetings.
This according to practice.
In that case, the work in the group has been poorly managed, according to Nils Funcke.
- Number one is the lack of documentation within this crisis management group, that they did not keep proper protocols or appoint someone to keep memoranda, he says.
- I have a hard time seeing that five or six state secretaries and press secretaries are sitting here formulating advice and recommendations to the government without anyone noticing.
It is clear that there are notes, and the Minister has also admitted that.
"Hiding behind formalities"
Nils Funcke is critical of the government's statement that it does not have memoranda from individual officials.
- Then you hide behind the formalities.
It can be strictly formal in that way, but there is nothing to stop you from making a decision to record them.
- If there are private parts, you can sift them away in that case, but if you are sitting in a meeting, it is about the most powerful thing we have in Sweden, and then it should be noted.
Received more documents
Earlier this week, following the criticism, the Commission received documents in the form of summaries of the meetings.
The Commission has not yet had time to review the documentation.
"We have started going through it and will continue to do so next week.
It is still too early to say whether it corresponds to what we have requested ", writes Mats Melin, President of the Commission, to TT.
Hear Nils Funcke develop his critique in the clip above.