4hago 16.06 GMT Gove dismisses evidence at Covid inquiry implying he told officials to ‘circumvent’ regulators to help James Dyson At the Covid inquiry Michael Gove, the former Cabinet Office minister, has dismissed evidence suggesting he ordered officials to ensure that ventilators designed by James Dyson’s company for use during the Covid pandemic were approved. Confronted with an official minute of a meeting suggesting that, on Wednesday 25 March 2020, he told civil servants that he wanted the Dyson model to be approved by the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority) by the Friday (two days later), Gove said that it would have been “absurd” for him to seek to overrule a regulatory body. He also claimed that the minute was phrased in “shorthand” and that what it was meant to say was that he wanted to see the Dyson ventilator approved, provided it passed the tests. Gove was responding to questions from Jamie Sharma, counsel for the inquiry, who produced this minute. It says that CDL (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - Gove) told MHRA and Gareth Rhys Williams, a Cabinet Office official, to ensure that “by the end of Friday, the Dyson product has tested and approved by MHRA”.
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