Matthew Gould

Matthew Gould   (diplomat)
Religion	Jewish
Member of	NHSX
CEO  In office 2019 - Present Employer NHSX  Office of Cyber Security & Information Assurance/Director In office November 2015 - 2019  British Ambassador to Israel In office September 2010 - 2015 Haaretz described him as “Not just an ambassador who is Jewish, but a Jewish ambassador.”  Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary  In office July 2007 - July 2010  Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister In office April 2007 - July 2007  Foreign and Security Policy Counsellor and the Representative In office 2005 - April 2007 Employer Joint Intelligence Committee  Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Iran In office 2003 - 2005 Including 5 months as acting ambassador  Political officer at the British Embassy In office 1994 - 1997 Location Manila

Matthew Gould is the first Jew to have been appointed British Ambassador to Israel (2010 to 2015) and the first CEO of NHSX, which was founded in 2019 and has developed a contact tracking app to monitor the spread of COVID-19.

Fox-Werritty scandal

Craig Murray, former Ambassador to Uzbekistan, argued that British policy was being driven in an underhanded fashion by the Israel lobby and linked Matthew Gould with the 2011 Fox-Werritty scandal. Murray wrote to Gould asking when he first met Adam Werritty, how many times he had met him, and how many communications of every kind had passed between them. He was told these questions would be answered in Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell’s investigation, but objected that "Gus O’Donnell’s report answered none of these questions".

According to Murray:

"I turned to an independent-minded MP, Jeremy Corbyn, who put down a parliamentary question to William Hague. The reply quite deliberately ignored almost all of Corbyn’s question, but it did throw up an extraordinary bit of information – yet another meeting between Fox, Werritty and Gould, which had not been previously admitted."

Hague replied to Corbyn:

“Our ambassador to Israel was also invited by the former Defence Secretary to a private social engagement in summer 2010 at which Adam Werritty was present.”

Murray concluded that “something very important is being hidden right at the heart of government” and published his story, “Matthew Gould and the plot to attack Iran.”

In charge of cyber security

In November 2015, Matthew Gould was appointed Director of the Office of Cyber Security & Information Assurance.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Civil Liberty Vanishes	blog post	6 May 2020	Craig Murray	"Serious questions have to be asked about why the UK government has developed its own unique app, universally criticised for its permanent central data collection and ability to identify individuals from their unique codes. That this is overseen by NHSX CEO Matthew Gould who held all those secret meetings with Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, including with Mossad, frankly stinks."
Document:Matthew Gould and the Plot to Attack Iran	webpage	14 November 2011	Craig Murray
Document:Why the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app failed	Article	19 June 2020	Matt Burgess	On 18 June 2020, Matt Hancock announced that the planned centralised NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight and downloaded by tens of thousands of people, has been ditched in favour of a decentralised system developed by Google and Apple.

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