But the Alex Salmond Inquiry was not informed that Hynd had led a Civil Servant Secretariat put in place by John Swinney and tasked with providing Hamilton with guidance & investigative support. Hamilton’s investigation was supposed to be free from Govern

But the Alex Salmond Inquiry was not informed that Hynd had led a Civil Servant Secretariat put in place by John Swinney and tasked with providing Hamilton with guidance & investigative support. Hamilton’s investigation was supposed to be free from Govern

James Hynd, Head of the Scottish Government Cabinet, Parliament and Governance Division Was central to a review and update of the parliaments harassment complaint policy, when he wrote new procedures, under duress giving advice to politician’s and Civil Servant Managers senior to himself that there were dangers inherent in creating precedence with a new untested procedure with which the controlling authority in London had deprecated. The Holyroo…