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Covid inquiry asked to delay first hearing for a month due to redaction workload

A request for a “modest” delay of around a month to the start of the first public hearing in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been made. A preliminary hearing on Tuesday heard how the “process of review and disclosure” on hundreds of pages of UK ...

14 Feb 2023 at 14:35

Covid inquiry chairwoman ‘sympathetic’ to request to delay first hearing

The retired judge leading the UK Covid Inquiry said she is “sympathetic” to a request made to delay the first public hearing by a month. Baroness Hallett had heard how the process of making “thousands of manual redactions” to UK Government ...

14 Feb 2023 at 15:58

Covid inquiry chairwoman to sit without panel in interests of pace, PM decides

Baroness Heather Hallett will not have a panel in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Rishi Sunak has decided in an attempt to speed it up. In a written statement to Parliament, the Prime Minister said the investigation into the response to the ...

27 Apr 2023 at 10:59

Bereaved families hold pictures of loved ones in vigil outside Covid inquiry

Bereaved families holding pictures of their loved ones lined up outside the UK Covid-19 Inquiry building as the major probe into the handling of the pandemic officially began its public hearings. Members of the Covid-19 Bereaved ...

13 Jun 2023 at 10:43

Covid inquiry will be the thorough investigation the UK deserves, chair vows

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry will be the thorough investigation into the pandemic that the nation deserves, chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett has vowed as she opened the hearings. Lady Hallett said she intends to answer three key ...

13 Jun 2023 at 10:48

Councils ‘simply do not understand’ evidence given by Matt Hancock, inquiry told

Evidence given to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry by Matt Hancock has been called into question by local councils, which insisted his former department had “far more levers” to oversee social care provision than he suggested. A ...

19 Jul 2023 at 13:18

Call for urgent changes after older people left feeling that ‘nobody cares’

A woman whose father died from Covid-19 after he caught the illness in hospital has called for urgent changes to infection control policies and the treatment of bereaved families so older generations are not left ...

18 Jul 2023 at 14:04

Cabinet Office refusal to hand over evidence ‘corrosive’, Covid Inquiry hears

The Cabinet Office’s refusal to hand over requested documents to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is “corrosive” and will damage confidence in the process, the opening hearing has been told. Sam Jacobs, a lawyer ...

13 Jun 2023 at 18:29

High Court decision on Government challenge to Covid inquiry due on Thursday

The Cabinet Office is to learn whether it has won its legal challenge to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry chairwoman’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries. High Court ...

05 Jul 2023 at 12:05

Northern Ireland

‘No surprise’ briefing for minister sparse on pandemic plan detail, probe told

It is not surprising that a briefing document presented to Northern Ireland’s new health minister in January 2020 contained only two paragraphs about emergency planning for a pandemic, a senior ...

11 Jul 2023 at 16:12

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland could have been better prepared for pandemic, inquiry told

Northern Ireland could have been better prepared to deal with the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, a barrister for the Department of Health has said. However, Neasa Murnaghan KC also told ...

19 Jul 2023 at 14:24

Sunak says he is ‘expansively’ helping Covid-19 inquiry after WhatsApp claims

Rishi Sunak has insisted he is “expansively” helping the UK Covid-19 Inquiry after it was claimed he is unable to provide WhatsApp messages because he failed to back them up. The Prime ...

03 Oct 2023 at 22:12

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