The Barts’ Medical School agreement announced by the Prime Minister on March 18 was not at all a “done deal” and rather than answering questions, this was creating more doubts, shadow minister Claudette Buttigieg said this afternoon.

It referred to repeated statements by Minister Chris Cardona in Parliament yesterday that the agreement was “a memorandum of understanding”.

But in a statement today, the government referred to this as “a fully executed final contract between Barts and the government”.

The government said the contract provided for commitments and obligations from both sides and that the Barts Medical School would be constructed on the site of the Gozo General Hospital.

The lease agreement, the government said, had already been discussed and agreed upon between the parties and would be signed when the premises were completed.

This, Ms Buttigieg said, meant that there was still no concrete agreement about from where Barts would operate.

The statement, also did not mention the €200 million investment, which the school had already said in public, it was not doing.

Employees in the sector, Ms Buttigieg said, deserved better and the only way the government could put the public’s mind at rest was by publishing the agreement signed with Barts.