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‘Deeply worrying’ that UK Covid-19 inquiry has started but not Scottish one

A solicitor representing Scottish families bereaved by Covid-19 has said it is “ironic and deeply worrying” that a UK inquiry is under way while Scotland’s probe “appears to have stalled”. Aamer Anwar, a solicitor acting on behalf of Scottish ...

04 Oct 2022 at 15:44

Covid-19 Inquiry to visit towns and cities across the UK

Representatives of the Covid-19 Inquiry will visit towns and cities across the UK over the next few weeks to meet with people impacted by the pandemic. Chair of the inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett said she wants to hear from people across ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

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

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 Stormont civil servant has said. ...

11 Jul 2023 at 16:12

Johnson’s messages handed to Covid-19 inquiry after Government court defeat

Boris Johnson’s notebooks, WhatsApp messages and diaries have been handed over to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry after the Government lost its bid to prevent their release. The Cabinet Office had been given until 4pm to comply with ...

10 Jul 2023 at 14:22

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 feeling as ...

18 Jul 2023 at 14:04

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

Families who lost loved ones in pandemic ‘will not be ignored’ – inquiry chair

Families who lost loved ones during the Covid-19 pandemic will not be ignored as political decision-making is scrutinised by the public inquiry, its chairwoman has said. Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Court of ...

03 Oct 2023 at 11:56

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 Minister wrote in his ...

03 Oct 2023 at 22:12

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 ...

14 Feb 2023 at 15:58

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 ...

14 Feb 2023 at 14:35

‘We don’t want your apology’, protesters tell Boris Johnson

Four people who were removed from Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 Inquiry hearing said they “didn’t want his apology”. The former Prime Minister’s evidence was interrupted on Wednesday morning as he began an ...

06 Dec 2023 at 12:50

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