Searchable transcripts of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearings
Module 7
30 May 2025
Professor Richard MacHin
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Professor Deenan Pillay
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Mr Jacobs
Ms Drysdale KC
Mr Salisbury
29 May 2025
Professor Jim McMenamin
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Ms Mary Morgan
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Professor Madelynne Arden
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Dayle
28 May 2025
Baroness Dido Harding
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Parsons
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Professor Dame Harries
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Greg Fell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
27 May 2025
Mr Ben Dyson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Parsons
Dame Raine
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Maragh
Dr Robin Howe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Parsons
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Oliver Munn
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
22 May 2025
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Lord James Bethell
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
The Vallance
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
21 May 2025
The Foster
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Ms Michelle O’Neill
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Professor Sir McBride
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Mr Robin Swann
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
20 May 2025
Mr Dan York-Smith
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Ms Jo-Anne Daniels
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Mr Vaughan Gething
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Parsons
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Mark Drakeford
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Parsons
19 May 2025
Professor Timothy Spector
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Weaver
Professor Christopher Molloy
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Maragh
Mr Dominic Cook
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Parsons
15 May 2025
Sir Paul Nurse
Questions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor Alan McNally
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Maragh
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Matthew Gould
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Simon Thompson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
14 May 2025
Professor Iain Buchan
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Mr Will Garton
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Mr Martin Hewitt
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Dayle
Dr Emran Mian
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
13 May 2025
Ms Hazel Gray
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Ms Nicola Boyle
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Professor Martin McKee
Questions From Lead, Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7.
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Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms McDermott
Professor Christophe Fraser
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
12 May 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Parsons
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and the Welsh Local Government Association by Ms Stober
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Mr Strachan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health In Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Ministers by Ms Drysdale KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Kinnier KC
Professor Naomi Fulop
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Ms Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Transcript of Module 7 Second Preliminary Hearing, on 06 February 2025
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 7
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Munroe KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Nugent
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
27 June 2024
Statement by Senior Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved Encourage the Inquiry to Consider Using A Neutral Term Which Defines the Issue Without Adopting the Approach In One Nation to Be the Norm With Other Nations Expected to Adapt to the Situation In England. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru Also In Their Submissions on Scope Highlight the Importance of the Significant Differences In the Test, Trace and Protect Policies Employed In Wales, With Numerous and Substantial Variance In Approach, Resources and Deployment Across the Home Nations Throughout the Relevant Period. My Lady May Consider That the Chair’s Provisional Outline of Scope Provides An Overarching Framework for the Issues and Matters That the Inquiry Is Likely to Investigate, to Enable Core Participants and Individuals and Organisations Likely to Have Relevant Evidence to Commence Their Preparations. My Lady May Also Consider That the Alternative Wording Is Not Required At This Stage, and the Wording Is Intended to Be Neutral. I Reiterate That Module 7’s Scope Remains Provisional, and If the Investigation and/or Further Evidence Reveals A Difficulty With Wording, Then We Consider That You, My Lady, As the Chair, Can Reflect and Change This If Aircraft. Turning Next to Submissions That Have Been Received In Respect of Module 7’s Title. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice In Their Joint Submission Have Invited the Inquiry to Add “support” to the Title of Module 7. They Submit That the Provision of Support, Economic and Otherwise, for Those Who Tested Positive Was A Crucial Component for An Effective Test, Trace and Isolation Response to the Pandemic. Module 7 Will Consider Factors Influencing Compliance With Test, Trace and Isolate Rules, Which Will Include Consideration of the Financial and Practical Support to Those Required to Isolate, As Set Out At Point 4 of the Provisional Outline of Scope. We Are Grateful for the Suggestion and My Lady May Consider That the Current Module Name and References to Support In the Provisional Scope Is Sufficient. My Lady, I Next Turn to Summarise Further Submissions That Have Been Received on the Scope of Module 7. the Following Points on Scope Were Raised and I Draw Your Attention to Today and Provide An Initial Response on Behalf of Module 7. We Are Grateful for the Submissions of the Tuc Which Detail That the Provisional Outline of Scope Is Sufficiently Broad and Do Not Invite Amendment But They Request Two Points of Clarification As to the Interpretation of “vulnerable” and Also Ask If the Adult Social Care Infection Prevention and Control Fund Will Be Considered In Module 7. This Module Will Seek Evidence From Relevant Material Providers on Financial Support As It Relates to Or Could Have Influenced Compliance With Test, Trace and Isolate Policies and Rules. I Mentioned Earlier That A Future Module Is Likely to Review the Government’s Business and Financial Responses and Module 6 Is Also Looking At Social Care. Close Co-ordination Will Continue With Those Modules on Financial Support Available, Including In Respect of the Adult Social Care Infection Prevention and Control Fund Specifically. Further, This Module Is Not Limited to Seeking Evidence In Relation to Vulnerability But Will Seek to Explore Issues and Request Evidence Relevant to Test, Trace and Isolate From A Range of Different Groups and Populations With Varying Characteristics, Such As, and Not Limited to, Key Workers, In Crowded Housing, Those From Ethnic Minority Backgrounds, Those With Pre-existing Health Conditions, and Those From Low Incomes. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru and Femho Have Provided A List of Issues of Particular Importance to Them and for the Consideration of the Inquiry. My Lady May Consider That the Issues Helpfully Set Out Can Be Summarised Into the Following Categories: Decision-making of the Welsh Government With Regards to Testing, Tracing and Isolation Policies and Strategies, and How This Differed; Accessibility and Availability of Testing; Delays to Testing; and Public Communication. These Are Topics Which Will Be Scrutinised by the Inquiry and We Encourage Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru and Others Who Wish to Provide Relevant Evidence to Do So. We Reiterate Our Commitment to Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru That They Will Be Issued With Requests for Evidence, and Similarly, My Lady, In Respect of Femho A Request Has Already Been Issued to Femho. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice In Their Joint Submission Recognise the Wide Scope of Module 7 But Express Concerns As to What They Describe As “notable Omissions”, With the Scope Referring Almost Exclusively to the Period of Response From 1 January 2020 Which They Submit “neglects to Include the Crucial Issue of Preparedness.” Their Submission Encourages the Inquiry to Consider the Position As At 1 January 2020 Preparedness and the Position From 1 January 2020 the Response. Module 1 Has Considered Preparedness and This Module Will Consider the Capacity for Testing and the Expansion of It From January 2020. In Considering the Capacity Already Available to Key Decision-makers At the Time Across the Devolved Administrations, Resources Prior to the Pandemic and Preparedness Will Be Looked At. My Lady May Consider the Combination of These Does Not, With Respect, Give Rise to A Notable Omission and That It Is A Proportionate Approach In This Module. Further, Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Observe There Is Little Mention In the Provisional Scope In Relation to Discrimination, Inequalities and Disparity of Outcomes, With the Only Reference Being to the Public Sector Equality Duty. the Submission of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Is That Issues of Structural and Institutional Race Discrimination and Other Forms of Discrimination, Particularly Disability, Are As Important In This Module As In Other Parts of the Inquiry, and They Urge the Inquiry to Amend the Scope to Reflect This. My Lady, You Have Stated In Your Commitment In Meeting the Aims of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry to Investigate the Unequal Impact of the Pandemic on Different Categories of People Across the United Kingdom, Including But Not Limited to Those With Protected Characteristics Under the Equality Act 2010 and Equality Categories Under the Northern Ireland Act 1998. My Lady, You Have Been Absolutely Clear That the Vital Issue of the Impact of the Pandemic and the Response to It on At-risk Or Vulnerable Or Marginalised People, and on Ethnic Minority Groups, Has Been At the Heart of This Inquiry Since Its Inception. Module 7 Is Actively Seeking Evidence to Give Particular Consideration to Groups With Protected Characteristics, Geographical Differences, Social Economic Background, Occupation and Immigration Status. Module 7’s Investigation Includes Seeking Evidence to Understand Any Unequal Impact. the Inquiry Will Do So by Asking Core Decision-makers Along With Bespoke Questions, That Which Is Outlined In the Inquiry’s Equalities and Human Rights Statement: Did Decision-makers Consider the Impact of Policy Decisions on Each of These Groups? and Were the Decisions Taken As A Result Adequate In Mitigating the Impact of the Pandemic on These Groups? My Lady, Moving Next to Evidence Requests and Rule 9 Update. the Inquiry Has Already Either Issued Or Is About to Issue Formal Requests for Evidence, Pursuant to Rule 9 of the Inquiry Rules 2006 to A Number of Individuals and Organisations Which Appear to Have Played A Central Or Significant Role In Matters Relevant to Module 7. These Include, by Way of Headline: Government Departments of the United Kingdom and Devolved Administrations, Including the Department of Health and Social Care, His Majesty’s Treasury, Department for Education, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Cabinet Office; Department for Transport; Department of Health and Social Services Wales; Health and Social Care Directorate Scotland; Department of Health Northern Ireland. In Addition, Committee Decision-makers In the United Kingdom Government and the Devolved Governments In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland Will Be Receiving Rule 9 Requests Regarding Test, Trace and Isolate. Executive Agencies and Non-departmental Public Bodies, Including the UK Health Security Agency, Sage, Spi-m-o, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational, the Joint Biosecurity Centre; Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency; Nhs England and Nhs Digital; Nhs National Services Scotland; Health Protection Scotland; Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland; the Local Government Association and Welsh Local Government Association; Northern Ireland Local Government Association; the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities; the Association of Directors of Public Health; Criminal Justice and Enforcement Agencies. Further Relevant Key Individuals, Including Baroness Dido Harding, Sir Patrick Vallance, Professor Chris Whitty and Professor Sir Jonathan Van-tam, Relevant Organisations Such As the Royal Statistical Society, the Microbiology Society and Professional Individuals With Specialist Knowledge and Expertise Relevant Relative to Test, Trace and Isolate. Groups and Organisations Representing Specific Areas of Interest Within the Scope of Module 7, Including the Covid Bereaved Family Groups, Clinically Vulnerable Families, Disability Action Northern Ireland, Disability Rights UK, Long Covid Groups, Femho, the Traveller Movement, Trade Unions and Representative Bodies for Health and Social Care Professionals, and Those Representing Minority Or Marginalised Communities and Individuals. Finally, Private Suppliers, Which I Will Address Separately Later. As My Lady Is Aware, This Inquiry and the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry Are Keen to Avoid Duplication Between Them and So the Module 7 Team Is Checking Not Only the Requests Made by Other Inquiry Modules But Also Those Made by the Scottish Inquiry. That Process Means, Inevitably That It Takes A Little More Time to Issue Rule 9 Requests to Scottish Bodies, But It Is Hoped That In the Long Run This Approach Will Assist In Minimising Unnecessary Repetition. In That Regard, I Should Add That, on 23 February 2023, the Inquiry Published A Memorandum of Understanding Setting Out How This Inquiry and the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry Intend to Work Effectively Together. I Am Also Aware That Your Ladyship Has Met With the Chair of the Scottish Inquiry, Lord Brailsford, to Discuss the Constructive Ways In Which the Two Inquiries Can Collaborate and Co-operate. the Inquiry Is Grateful for All the Suggestions Made In the Written Submissions As to Who Should Receive A Rule 9 Request From the Trades Union Congress and the Inquiry Legal Team Has Already Started to Consider Those Proposals. As the Rule 9 Requests Will Be Issued on A Rolling Basis to Organisations and Witnesses, Some Issues Will Come Into Greater Focus, No Doubt, During the Course of the Investigation. Femho In Their Submissions Reiterates Its Position In Previous Modules and Asks You, My Lady, to Reconsider Your Position on Disclosure of Rule 9 Requests to Core Participants. In Line With Your Determination Made In Module 1, Core Participants Will Not Be Provided With Copies of the Rule 9 Requests Made by the Inquiry. Disclosure to the Core Participants of the Rule 9 Requests Themselves, As Opposed to the Documents and the Material Generated by Those Requests, Is Neither Required by the Rules Nor Generally Established by Past Practice. Furthermore, In Our Submission, It Would Serve Little Practical Purpose, Given the Wide Scope and the Detailed Nature of Rule 9 Requests That Are Being Made. to Ensure, Though, That the Core Participants Are Properly Informed the Inquiry Will Ensure That the Module 7 Lead Solicitor Provides Monthly Updates to Core Participants on the Progress of Rule 9 Work, and Those Updates Will Include A Summary of Who of Has Received Rule 9 Requests and the Expected Response Dates. My Lady, Turning Next to Say A Few Things About Private Companies and Organisations. Your Ladyship Is Aware That When the Draft Scope of Module 7 Was Circulated In Advance of Invitations for Applications for Core Participant Status, You Indicated That You Were Particularly Interested In Receiving Core Participant Applicants From Those Individuals Or Bodies Who Made Key Decisions In the Test, Trace and Isolate System, Rather Than Seeking Applications From the Large Volume of Suppliers Contracted to Provide Test, Trace and Isolate Services Or Equipment In the Pandemic. You Also Indicated That Some Suppliers May Be Able to Contribute to the Inquiry by Providing Evidence About Their Experience, But That They Did Not Need to Be A Core Participant to Do That. the Module 7 Team Is Aware That Hundreds of Private Companies and Organisations Were Involved In Testing, Tracing and Implementation of Quarantine and Isolation Rules, Along With Independent Private Consultants Across the System. the Module 7 Scope Has Been Purposely Drafted So As to Focus on the Core Decision-making of the UK and Devolved Nations, Rather Than the Actions of the Private Sector Companies Involved. However, Module 7 Will Invite Evidence on Your Behalf From Selected Supplier Companies and Organisations by Issuing Rule 9 Requests, Asking Each to Explain Their Role In the Test, Trace and Isolate System and to Ensure That the Experience and/or Learning That They Might Speak to Can Be Considered. Broadly Speaking, Commercial Organisations Were Contracted to Conduct the Following: Project Management and Support Services; Managing and Operating Testing Sites, and Providing Laboratory Capacity and Processing for Pillar 2 Testing; Provision of Test Kits and Supplies; Providing National Contact Tracing; Developing and Providing Digital Services for Test and Trace, As Well As Developing A Contact Tracing App. the Work Has Already Begun With Organisations Having Been Identified Who Have Evidence Directly Relevant to Module 7 Issues In A Substantive Way. Rule 9 Requests Have Been Drafted Or Are In the Process of Being Drafted, Including and Not Limited to: Deloitte; Medicines Discovery Catapult; the Lighthouse Laboratories Operated At Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Cheshire, Glasgow, Loughborough, Newport, Berkshire, Gateshead, Plymouth and Leamington Spa; Accenture; Ibm UK; McKinsey & Co UK; Zuhlke Engineering; Randox; Sitel; Sodexo; and Roche. My Lady, Turning Next to the Issue of Expert Evidence. Module 7 Is In the Process of Identifying the Broad Areas Where Expert Evidence Is Likely to Be of Assistance to This Module of the Inquiry. My Lady May Consider It Likely That Expert Evidence on the Range of Testing Technologies and Strategies, As Well As the Issues Surrounding Uptake, Access and Compliance With These Policies and Strategies, Will Be Sought. It Is Highly Likely That Any Expert Instructed Will Have Reasonable Regard to Relevant International Comparison, Which Is An Issue Raised by Core Participants In Their Submissions. the Inquiry Is Currently Approaching Experts Who Are Being Considered for Instructions. A Number of Core Participants In Their Submissions Have Made Suggestions About Area of Potential Expert Evidence for Module 7 and These Will Be Given Careful Consideration. the Submissions of Scottish Covid Bereaved Seek to Encourage the Instruction of Experts With Sufficient Expertise Concerning Scotland and the Scottish Government’s Policies and Practices. the Submissions of the Tuc Request Expert Evidence to Examine International Comparative Data and to Explore Trends Globally During the Pandemic to Assist Assessment of the Efficacy of the Schemes Implemented In the United Kingdom and In Making Evidence-based Recommendations for A Future Pandemic. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Also Make Submissions for Expert Evidence In Respect of Comparative International Public Health Systems by Way of “proportionate Evidence” Identifying A Small Number of Other Countries Where the Approach Taken to Test, Trace and Isolate Appears to Have Been Instrumental In Achieving Better Outcomes. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Also Request Expert Evidence on the Issue of Discrimination and Structural and Institutional Race Discrimination and Other Forms of Discrimination, Particularly Disability, As Being Crucial to Understanding the Full Impact of the Test, Trace and Isolate Strategies on Diverse Communities and Workforce. the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Encourage Investigation As to Whether the Experts Commissioned to Report on Other Aspects of Discrimination and Inequalities In Other Modules May Have Knowledge and Evidence to Provide Additional Expert Evidence Relating to Test, Trace and Isolate Or to Assist With Identifying Others More Suitable to Do So. Femho Also Makes Submissions That Expert Evidence Should Be Obtained From A Specialist In Race Inequality, Potentially In the Form of Follow-up Reports by the Experts Instructed for Module 2 to Provide Detailed Opinion on the Inequality Issues Relating to Test, Trace and Isolate. the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Seek Consultation With Them on the Identification of Appropriate Experts and A Timeline for When Draft Reports Will Be Disclosed. My Lady, You and Many of the Core Participants Involved In Previous Modules Will Be Aware That the Inquiry to Date Has Instructed Numerous Experts Across Different Disciplines. the Approach Has Been to Instruct Experts Who Have the Requisite Expertise to Be Able to Comment, Where Appropriate, on Devolved Administrations, Make International Comparisons and Equalities. the Core Participants’ Submissions on the Appropriateness and Expertise Required for Experts Are Noted and Are Matters That the Module 7 Team Will Carefully Consider Prior to the Instruction of the Experts. the Identities of Instructed Experts Will Be Contained In the Solicitor to the Inquiry’s Update Notes. Once Experts Are Instructed, These Notes Will Also Provide Further Details of the Topics Which the Experts Will Address In Their Reports, Thereby Enabling Core Participants to Comment on Those Matters Should They Wish to Do So. In Addition to This, As In Other Modules, Core Participant Organisations Will Have the Opportunity to Comment Substantively on the Content of A Draft Version of the Reports. My Lady, Turning Next to Disclosure. In Common With the Approach Taken In Previous Modules, Module 7 Will Adopt the Following Approach to Disclosure. All Core Participants Will Receive All Documents Disclosed In Module 7, Not Just Those Documents Relevant to Them. Disclosure Will Be Subject to Three Things: First, A Relevance Review So That Only Relevant Documents Are Disclosed; Second, A De-duplication Exercise; Third, Redactions In Accordance With the Inquiry’s Redaction Protocol. A Team of Solicitors, Barristers and Paralegals Is Already In Place to Review the Relevant Disclosure That Has Been Received In Previous Modules and They Will Review This for Relevant Disclosure In Module 7 As They Also Will Consider Disclosure As Received In Respect of Module 7. Disclosure Is Likely to Be In Tranches Made on A Rolling Basis. Disclosure Will Be Made Via the Electronic Data Management and Disclosure System Relativity, and Again Disclosure Updates Will Be Provided by the Module 7 Solicitors Team, Informing Core Participants of the Progress Which Has Been Made In Obtaining Relevant Documents. We Will, of Course, Also Provide These At the Next Preliminary Hearing. the Inquiry, As I Have Already Indicated, Has Begun Work by Reviewing Documents Received by Modules 1 to 8 to Date That Have Been Identified As Having Potential Relevance to Module 7 Issues. A Review of Those Documents, Including Expert Reports, Will Be Conducted and Relevant Documents Disclosed to Core Participants As Soon As Possible. This Is A Matter A Number of Core Participants Raise In Their Submissions, Namely the Issue of Timely Disclosure to Ensure Effective Preparation. the Process of Disclosure to Core Participants Is Anticipated to Begin In Autumn 2024. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru and the Scottish Covid Bereaved and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom and Northern Ireland All Request Timely Disclosure to Allow Proper Preparation for the Substantive Hearing. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Suggest A Date At Least Two Months Before the Start of the Hearings for the Bulk of Disclosure. We Are Grateful to the Tuc for Identification of A Helpful List of Documents Suggestive of Cross-disclosure In Module 7. Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Also Submit That Each Document Provider Should Provide A Corporate Narrative to Address What Did and Did Not Happen With Respect to the Issues of Module 7, and Who Was Or Should Have Been Responsible for That, Viewed Through Their Own Institutional Knowledge and Perspective. Each Document Provider Is Being Asked to Provide, Amongst Other Matters, Details of the Key Individuals Who Are Involved In Issues Relevant to Module 7’s Provisional Outline of Scope, the Key Meetings and A Summary of the Categories of Other Material Held and/or Already Provided to the Inquiry Relating to the Module 7 Provisional Outline of Scope. This Information Will Allow the Inquiry to Understand the Nature of Relevant Material Held by the Document Provider and to Make Targeted Requests for Further Material If Necessary. Where, As A Result of the Information Provided, the Inquiry Has Any Concerns About A Provider’s Processes for Providing Relevant Documents, It Will Raise and Pursue Them and, of Course, As Documents Are Reviewed and Gaps Identified, Further Documents May Be Sought. of Course, My Lady, You Also Have the Power to Compel the Production of Documents Under Section 21 of the Inquiries Act and There Are Provisions In Section 35 of the Inquiries Act Which Is Make It An Offence, During the Course of An Inquiry, for A Person to Do Anything to Alter Or Distort A Relevant Document Or Prevent Any Relevant Document Being Produced to the Inquiry, Or to Intentionally Destroy, Suppress Or Conceal A Relevant. My Lady, Turning Next to Every Story Matters. Every Story Matters Is the Name Given to the Inquiry’s Nationwide Listening Exercise. My Lady, the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference Make Clear That Although the Inquiry Will Not Investigate Individual Cases of Harm Or Death In Detail, Listening to the Accounts and Experiences Experience of the Bereaved Families and Others Who Suffered Shard to Be Or Loss Will Inform the Inquiry’s Understanding of the Impact of the Pandemic and the Response and of the Lessons to Be Learnt. Every Story Matters Is Therefore the Process by Which the Public Can Contribute to the Inquiry, So That It Will Be Able Not Just to Hear the Voices of the People of the United Kingdom and to Reflect Upon Their Experience, But Also to Incorporate the Emerging Themes Into Its Work. Every Contribution Through Every Story Matters Will Be Analysed and Turned Into Themed Reports, Which Will Be Submitted Into Each Relevant Investigation. These Reports Will Be Anonymised, Disclosed to the Inquiry’s Core Participants and Used In Evidence. the Reports Will Identify Trends and Themes and Include Illustrative Case Studies Which May Demonstrate Systemic Failures. Every Story Matters Aims to Obtain Insights and Information From Anyone Who Wishes to Contribute; That Is, From Anyone Who Was Impacted by the Pandemic and Wishes to Share Their Experience. It Has Been Designed So That Anyone and Everyone In the United Kingdom Who Is Aged 18 Or Older Can Contribute If They Wish to Do So. There Are Different Ways for People to Share Their Experience of the Pandemic With the Inquiry. This Can Be Done Via Our Web Form, A Variety of Alternative Formats, Including Easy Read and Paper Forms, Or Through Community Listening Events Around the Country. We Are Grateful to the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru for Their Indication That Those Who They Represent Are Looking Forward to Engaging With Every Story Matters. Femho, As A Consortium Representing 55,000 Individual Members and 43 Organisations and Networks, Encourages Module 7 to Receive Testimonies From Ethnic Minority Healthcare Workers and Community Members to Provide A Nuanced Understanding of the Test, Trace and Isolate Strategies’ Impact and to Highlight Areas for Improvement. We Would Encourage and Invite Femho Members, In Light of This Submission, to Share Their Experiences Through Every Story Matters. for Module 7, the Inquiry Is Seeking to Capture A Broad Range of Experience and Is Particularly Interested to Hear From Those Who Are More Likely to Have Had Difficulties Engaging With the Test, Trace and Isolate System, Including Those Across the Devolved Nations, for A Variety of Reasons. This Could Include, But Is Not Limited to, Those With Literacy and Learning Difficulties, the Visually Impaired, and Those With Challenges Accessing Testing Sites and Health Services. These Experiences Will Be Analysed and Reviewed by the Inquiry’s Research Partner Based on Key Lines of Enquiry (kloes) for Every Story Matters, Produced by the Inquiry Team. the Key Lines of Enquiry Are An Important Tool for Setting Throughout Way In Which the Inquiry Will Gather and Analyse Experiences Shared With Every Story Matters, In Particular Through the Targeted Research. the Inquiry’s Research Partner and the Inquiry Legal Team Have Been Exploring the Opportunity to Conduct Targeted Qualitative Research In Relation to Particular Topics and Particular Groups of People Based on the Kloes. the Draft Kloes for Module 7 Targeted Research Were Circulated to Core Participants. for Module 7, Targeted Research Is Being Undertaken to Hear the Experience of Families of People Who Were Clinically Vulnerable During the Pandemic, Ethnic Minority Health and Social Care Workers, People Living With Long Covid, and People With Disabilities, Among Other Target Groups. the Inquiry’s Research Partner Will Conduct Targeted Qualitative Research In Relation to Particular Topics and Particular Groups of People Based on the Kloes. It Is Proposed In Module 7 That This Research Will Focus on, Among Other Things, Listening to People From Different Communities and Backgrounds Where There Were Particular Difficulties and the Impact Caused to Them by the Test, Trace and Isolate System. the Key Lines of Enquiry Will Be Published on the Website When Finalised. It Is Unlikely That the Targeted Research Will Be Able to Cover All the Areas Listed In the Draft Kloes. Core Participants Were Invited to File Written Submissions Making Suggestions In Relation to the Kloes for This Targeted Qualitative Research. Core Participants Have Provided A Number of Helpful Submissions In Respect of the Kloes and the Approach to Targeted Work, for Which We Are Grateful. These Submissions Will Be Reviewed In Detail by the Inquiry Team and Will Help Inform the Work on the Kloes. In the Coming Weeks, the Inquiry Legal Team Will Work With Its Research Partner to Finalise Potential Research Questions and Priority Audiences In Relation to the Proposed Kloes. It Is Right to Note That the Every Story Matters Listening Exercise, Including Its Targeted Research, Is But One Part of the Inquiry’s Broader Consideration of the Experience of Groups and Individuals Impacted by Matters Falling Within the Provisional Outline of Scope for Module 7. the Experiences of Many More Groups and Individuals From A Large Range of Different Communities and Backgrounds Will Be Collected by Means of the Accounts Offered to the Inquiry Through Its Rule 9 Investigatory Requests. Turning Next, My Lady, to Commemoration. My Lady, You Have Made Clear You Wish to Recognise the Very Real and Human Suffering Arising From the Pandemic by Ensuring That It Is Properly Considered and Reflected In the Inquiry’s Work. As You Know, the Inquiry Is Producing A Series of Impact Films, the First of Which Was Screened At the Modules’ Public Hearings In Module 1 and Module 2, 2A, B and C, and Has Used Images and Artwork to Try to Represent Elements of the Loss and Suffering Caused by the Pandemic to the People of the United Kingdom. Such Was the Scale of the Tragedy, the Grief and Loss Suffered by the Bereaved, and the Lasting Effect of the Pandemic on the Lives of So Many Millions of People, That No Amount of Commemorative Activity Could Ever Adequately Reflect the Depth of Suffering Experienced by So Many. However, the Inquiry Remains Committed to Listening to the Voices of Those Most Impacted by the Pandemic and to Continue to Deliver Commemorative Activity That Recognises the Scale of This Tragedy, and the Effect It Had – and Continues to Have – on People’s Lives. There Will Be A New Impact Film Played At the Start of Module 7. These Films Are A Powerful Means of Reminding Ourselves of the Impact of the Pandemic and, Although They Do Not Strictly Constitute Evidence, They Help to Ground Proceedings In the Lived Experience of Those Who Have Suffered Hardship and Loss. My Lady, Turning Next to Directions. As You Know, My Lady, the Current Plans Are That Module 7 Hearing Is Expected to Take Place Over Three Weeks In the Spring of 2025. Further Timetabling Details Will Be Provided by Way of An Update to Core Participants In Due Course. These Will Also Be Announced on the Inquiry’s Website, and the Hearing Will Be Held Here At Dorland House. It Is Right to Highlight That You Have Received Joint Submissions From Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland That the Three-week Hearing Is An Inadequate Time Frame, Especially Considering That the UK and the Devolved Administrations Each Had Their Own Distinct Systems of Test, Trace and Isolate. In Light of the Evidence That Will Have Been Heard In Modules 1 to 5, the Provisional Scope of Module 7, the Intended Approach to Collation of Evidence by Rule 9 Requests, Module 7’s Intended Approach to Its Use of Experts, the Substantive Evidence Can Be Achieved In Three Weeks. It Is A Tight Timetable But, With A Focus on the Key Issues and the Co-operation of Core Participants, We Consider That the Hearing Timetable Can Be Maintained. My Lady, I Know That Once You Have Had An Opportunity to Consider the Written Submissions and Those That Are Being Made Orally Today, You Will Publish Any Necessary and Appropriate Directions In Due Course. Turning Then to Next Dates for Module 7, There Will Be A Further Preliminary Hearing for Module 7 and We Will Notify Core Participants When the Next Preliminary Hearing Is Due to Take Place and It Will Be Published on the Inquiry’s Website. This Is Currently Scheduled for Early 2025. My Lady, Moving Next to Submissions From Core Participants. My Lady, That Concludes All of the Matters Upon Which I Wish to Address You on Behalf of Counsel to the Inquiry. A Number of Core Participants Wish to Address You Orally During the Course of This Hearing, and So Can I Invite You to Hear From Those, Namely: Scottish Covid Bereaved; Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru; Covid Bereaved Families for Justice United Kingdom; Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice; the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations; the Trades Union Congress; the Welsh Government. A Further Written Submission Was Received by the Department for Education Relating to the Draft Key Lines of Enquiries. I Am Grateful to Ms Ward King’s Counsel and to the Department for Education for Confirming That They Do Not Wish to Address You Orally In Respect of Their Short Written Submissions. My Lady, There Appears to Be Time Before the First Break for You to Hear the Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved, and, My Lady, With Your Approval Can I Turn First to Mr McCaffery to Make the Oral Submissions He Wishes to Make In Respect of the Scottish Covid Bereaved, and Mr McCaffery Attends Over the Link, My Lady.
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr McCaffery
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Weereratne KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Munroe KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Bindman
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Ms Peacock
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Rogers
Module 5
27 March 2025
Mr David Williams
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From the Chair
26 March 2025
Ms Karen Bailey
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Banton
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Mr Christopher Matthews
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Banton
Mr Conor Murphy
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Major Prosser
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Morris KC
25 March 2025
Mr Christopher Young
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Mr Andrew Slade
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Parsons
Mr Jonathan Irvine
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Ms Parsons
Mr Richard Davis
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Ms Parsons
24 March 2025
Ms Jeane Freeman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Gordon Beattie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Paul Cackette
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
20 March 2025
Ms Dawn Matthias
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
19 March 2025
Lord James Bethell
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Mr Matthew Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Parsons
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Mr Tim Losty
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
18 March 2025
Mr Daniel Mortimer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Rosemary Gallagher
Questions by Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Parsons
Lord Deighton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions by Ms Morris KC
Questions by Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Dayle
Lord Agnew
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions by Ms Morris KC
17 March 2025
Mr Christopher Stirling
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Matthew Style
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Banton
Professor Ramani Moonesinghe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
13 March 2025
Ms Helen Whately
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Dayle
Ms Sarah Collins
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Dr Beverley Jandziol
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Dayle
12 March 2025
Mr Tim Jarvis
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Mr Graham Russell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Mr Steve Barclay
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Lord Andrew Feldman
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
11 March 2025
Dame Lawson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From the Chair
Mr Paul Webster
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Mr Julian Kelly
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Alan Brace
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Parsons
10 March 2025
Professor John Manners-Bell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Andrew Mitchell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Simon Manley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Michael Gove
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
6 March 2025
Mr Max Cairnduff
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Mr Darren Blackburn
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Chris Hall
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Dr Mitchell
Mr Andrew Wood
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
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Sir Gareth Williams
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas
Mr Jonathan Marron
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas
Questions From Ms Campbell
Questions From Dr Mitchell
4 March 2025
Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Questions From the Chair
Mr Daniel Bruce
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Sir Gareth Williams
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
3 March 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Ni Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Parsons
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of UK Anti-corruption Coalition by Mr Smith
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Ministers by Mr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs National Services Scotland by Ms Doherty KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Byrne
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health In Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and the Welsh Local Government Association by Ms Stober
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Ms Hannaford KC
Submissions on Behalf of UK Health Security Agency by Ms Idelbi
11 December 2024
Submissions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 5
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms McDermott
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
Submissions on Behalf of UK Anti-corruption Coalition by Mr~gavin Hayman
6 February 2024
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module5
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Nicholls
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Weereratne KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr McCaffery
Submissions on Behalf of Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
Submissions on Behalf of the UK Anti-corruption Coalition by Mr Munro
Module 4
31 January 2025
Ms Morris KC
30 January 2025
Professor Sir White
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Ms Helen Knight
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Douglas
Dr Clive Dix
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Ms Drysdale KC
Jacobs
29 January 2025
Ms Sarah Moore
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Lord James Bethell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner
Mr Eddie Gray
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Sir Munir Pirmohamed
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Douglas
Questions From Ms Morris KC
28 January 2025
Mr Derek Grieve
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Professor Dr Richardson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Dayle
Dr Naresh Chada
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Mr Weaver
Dr Ben Kasstan-Dabush
Dr Tracey Chantler
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Beattie
27 January 2025
Mr Darius Hughes
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Ms Kemi Badenoch
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Mr Nadhim Zahawi
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Questions From Ms Naik KC
Dame Emily Lawson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Douglas
Questions From Ms Beattie
23 January 2025
Sir Sajid Javid
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Wei Lim
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From the Chair
Mr Ben Osborn
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Dr Justin Green
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
22 January 2025
Professor Stephen Evans
Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Banton
Dame Raine
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Mr Odogwu
Questions From Ms Morris KC
21 January 2025
Dame Bingham
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Dr Mary Ramsay
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Naik KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Ms Susannah Storey
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Ms Charlet Crichton
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
20 January 2025
Ms Alexandra Jones
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Professor Sir Whitty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Professor Dame Harries
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
17 January 2025
Statement by the Chair
Lord Alok Sharma
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Ms Clara Swinson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Ms Naik KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Ms Catherine Little
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
16 January 2025
Dr Salman Waqar
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Yvonne MacNamara
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Lara Wong
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Heidi Larson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
15 January 2025
Submissions on Behalf of the National Pharmacy Association by Ms Domingo
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Ms Drysdale KC
Submissions on Behalf of the United Kingdom Health Security Agency by Mr Rawat
Submissions on Behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology by Mr Hill
Ms Bicarregui
Mrs Jean Rossiter
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiryfor Module 4
Ms Melanie Newdick
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Fiona Clarke
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Anna Miller
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Ms Sam Smith-Higgins
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Ms Ruth O’Rafferty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Ms Kate Scott
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Kamran Mallick
Mr Kamran Mallick
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
14 January 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 4
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Munroe KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Traveller Movement by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK (vibuk), UK CV Family and the Scottish Vaccine Injury Group by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Disabled People’s Organisations (dpo): Disability Rights UK, Disability Action Northern Ireland, Inclusion Scotland and Disability Wales by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Migrant Primary Care Access Group by Ms Naik KC
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Department of Health by Ms Murnaghan
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency by Mr Dixey
22 May 2024
Introductory Remarks by the Chair
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Munroe KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Puar
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr McCaffery
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK, Scottish Vaccine Injury Group and UK CV Family by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Ms Banton
Submissions on Behalf of the Migrant Primary Care Access Group by Ms Naik KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Traveller Movement by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association and National Pharmacy Association by Mr Stanton
Reply Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
13 September 2023
Statement by Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Stone
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms McDermott
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Shepherd
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr McCaffery
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK, Scottish Vaccine Injury Group and UK CV by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Ms Banton
Submissions on Behalf of the Migrant Primary Care Access Group by Ms Naik KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Traveller Movement by Mr Willers KC
Submissions on Behalf of the National Pharmacy Association by Mr Stanton
Module 3
28 November 2024
Closing Submissions
Closing Remarks by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Closing Remarks by the Chair
27 November 2024
Closing Submissions
Mr Jacobs
Ms Hannett KC
26 November 2024
Ms Anna-Louise Marsh-Reese
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Margaret Waterton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Saleyha Ahsan
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Ms Martina Ferguson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Closing Submissions
Geoffrey Mitchell KC
25 November 2024
Sir Sajid Javid
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Jory KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Puar
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
22 November 2024
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Polaschek
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Mr Pezzani
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Ms Woodward
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
21 November 2024
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Jory KC
Questions From Ms Morris KC
20 November 2024
Mr Vaughan Gething
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Baroness Eluned Morgan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Shepherd
19 November 2024
Ms Jeane Freeman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Mr Jory KC
Mr Humza Yousaf
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Ms Iengar
18 November 2024
Mr Robin Swann
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Questions From Ms Polaschek
14 November 2024
Professor Colin McKay
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Questions From Mr Wagner
13 November 2024
Dr Andrew Goodall
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms McDermott
Questions From Ms Gowman
Ms Judith Paget
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Gowman
12 November 2024
Sir Christopher Wormald
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Iengar
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Dr Philip Kloer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Iengar
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Dr Andrew Goodall
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
11 November 2024
Professor Sir Powis
Questions From Mr Jory KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Ms Alexis
Questions From Ms Stone
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Ms Amanda Pritchard
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Polaschek
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Pezzani
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Stone
7 November 2024
Professor Simon Ball
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor Sir Powis
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
6 November 2024
Dr Nicholas Phin
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Professor Dame Harries
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Questions From Mr Pezzani
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
5 November 2024
Professor Fu-Meng Khaw
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Foubister
Questions From Ms Polaschek
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Woodward
Mr Aidan Dawson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Foubister
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Campbell
Questions From Ms Iengar
Ms Laura Imrie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Polaschek
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Ms Stone
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
4 November 2024
Ms Patricia Temple
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Rosemary Gallagher
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Questions From Ms Alexis
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Mr Nicholas Kaye
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell
31 October 2024
Professor Aneel Bhangu
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From the Chair
Ms Chloe Scott
Professor Andrew Metcalfe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Ms Julie Pashley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Guy Northover
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Pezzani
30 October 2024
Ms Lesley Moore
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Natalie Rogers
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Dr Paul Chrisp
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Puar
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Professor Helen Snooks
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Rawat
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Puar
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
29 October 2024
Ms Julia Jones
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Ms Nicola Ritchie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Chris Brightling
Dr Rachael Evans
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
28 October 2024
Dr Sarah Powell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Caroline Abrahams
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Ms Jackie O’Sullivan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Professor Philip Banfield
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wolfe KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Ms Woodward
Questions From Ms Polaschek
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
10 October 2024
Professor Jonathan Wyllie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Alex Marshall
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Mr Matthew Stringer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Professor Habib Naqvi
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Marquis
Mr Jonathan Rees
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
9 October 2024
Ms Nora Ohrenstein
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Charlotte Summers
Dr Ganesh Suntharalingam
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Odogwu
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Ms Woodward
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Dr Stephen Mathieu
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Mr Weatherby
Questions From Ms Woodward
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Professor Jaswinder Bamrah
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms McDermott
Dr Catherine Finnis
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Dr Daniele Bryden
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms McDermott
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Peacock
7 October 2024
Ms Tamsin Mullen
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Jenny Ward
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Gill Walton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner
2 October 2024
Professor Kathryn Rowan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Ms Hammad
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Questions From Mr Odogwu
Professor Charlotte Summers
Dr Ganesh Suntharalingam
1 October 2024
Mr Mark Tilley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Anthony Marsh
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Tilna Tilakkumar
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Kathryn Rowan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
30 September 2024
Professor Sir Atherton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Weereratne KC
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Mr Pezzani
Dr Catherine McDonnell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
26 September 2024
Professor Fong
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor Sir Whitty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module3
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Pezzani
Questions From Ms Weereratne KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
25 September 2024
Professor Sir Smith
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
24 September 2024
Professor Sir Michael McBride
Questions From the Chair
Questions by Mr Wilcock KC
Questions by Professor Thomas KC
Questions by Ms Sivakumaran
Questions by Mr Jacobs
Questions by Ms Jones
Questions by Ms Polaschack
Further Questions by Mr Wilcock KC
23 September 2024
Professor Adrian Edwards
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Tracy Nicholls
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Michael Mulholland
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Iengar
Questions From Mr Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
19 September 2024
Dr Ben Warne
Professor Dinah Gould
Dr Gee Shin
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Weereratne KC
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
18 September 2024
Professor Charlotte McArdle
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Waddoup
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Professor Susan Hopkins
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Further Questions From the Chair
17 September 2024
Dame May
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From the Chair
Professor Jean White
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Weereratne KC
Ms Fiona McQueen
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wagner
16 September 2024
Mr Kevin Rowan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Puar
Ms Rozanne Foyer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Dr Lisa Ritchie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Banton
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Further Questions From the Chair
12 September 2024
Dr Barry Jones
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Mr Richard Brunt
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Simblet KC
Ms Sara Gorton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Sen Gupta KC
11 September 2024
Ms Catherine Todd
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Clive Beggs
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Foubister
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Marquis
10 September 2024
Submissions on Behalf of the Frontline Migrant Health Workers Group by Ms Sen Gupta KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges by Mr Henderson
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Anaesthetists Et Al by Ms Clarke
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society by Ms Domingo
Submissions on Behalf of the National Pharmacy Association by Mr John-charles
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Nursing by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Disability Charities Consortium by Mr Burton KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Mr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Public Health Scotland by Mr Bowie KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Territorial Health Boards by Mr Pugh KC
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs National Services Scotland by Mr Bowie KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Kinnier KC
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs Wales Core Participant Group of Welsh Health Boards (nwssp - L&rs) by Ms Fenelon
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs England by Ms Grey KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Independent Ambulance Association by Mr Jory KC
Mr John Sullivan
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Mr Paul Jones
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Carole Steele
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
9 September 2024
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Weereratne KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Groups by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, Care Rights UK and the Patients Association by Mr Wolfe KC
Submissions on Behalf of 13 Pregnancy, Baby and Parent Organisations and Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of Mind by Mr Pezzani
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance by Mr Simblet KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
10 April 2024
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 3
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Bindman
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr Henry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Weereratne KC
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, Care Rights UK and the Patients Association by Mr Straw KC
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families and 13 Pregnancy, Baby and Parent Organisations by Ms McCabe
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids, Long Covid Physio, Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Frontline Migrant Health Workers Group by Ms Sen Gupta KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Odogwu
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance by Mr Simblet KC
Submissions on Behalf of Mind by Ms Davies
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Nursing by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association, the National Pharmacy Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society by Ms Domingo
Closing Remarks by the Chair
27 September 2023
Statement by Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Munroe KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms McDermott
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Gowman
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids, Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Mr Metzer KC
Submissions on Behalf of the 13 Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting Organisations and Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, Care Rights UK (formerly the Relatives and Residents Association) and the Patients Association by Mr Straw KC
Submissions on Behalf of Mind by Ms Davies
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Nursing by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the National Pharmacy Association and the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance by Mr Simblet KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Frontline Migrant Health Workers Group by Ms Sen Gupta KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Independent Ambulance Association by Mr Jory KC
Reply Statement by Counsel to the Inquiry
28 February 2023
Opening Statement by Ms Carey, KC
Submission by Ms Munroe, KC
Submission by Mr Lavery, KC
Submission by Mr Williams, KC
Submission by Mr Metzer, KC
Submission by Mr Wagner
Submission by Mr Straw, KC
Submission by Mr Burton, KC
Submission by Ms Gallagher, KC
Submission by Ms Morris, KC
Submission by Mr Stanton
Submission by Mr Thomas, KC
Submission by Mr Simblet, KC
Submission by Mr Beer, KC
Submission by Mr Kinnier, KC
Submission by Mr Hyam, KC
Closing Remarks by Ms Carey, KC
Module 2C
16 May 2024
Ms Sue Gray
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disability Action Northern Ireland by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland by Ms Anyadike-danes KC
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Closing Remarks by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Closing Remarks by the Chair
15 May 2024
Baroness Arlene Foster
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Mr Alan Todd
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
14 May 2024
Ms Michelle O’Neill
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
13 May 2024
Mr Robin Swann
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Davies
Professor Ann-Marie Gray
Professor Karl O’Connor
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From the Chair
10 May 2024
Professor Sir McBride
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Ms Murnaghan KC
9 May 2024
Ms Naomi Long
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Mr Edwin Poots
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Sir Brandon Lewis
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
8 May 2024
Lord Peter Weir
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From the Chair
Ms Diane Dodds
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Deirdre Hargey
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Mr Stern
7 May 2024
Mr Richard Pengelly
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Professor Ian Young
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
3 May 2024
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Ms Karen Pearson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Ms Jayne Brady
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From the Chair
2 May 2024
Mr Christopher Stewart
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Dr Joanne McClean
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Dr Jenny Pyper
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
1 May 2024
Mr Eddie Lynch
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Mr Gerry Murphy
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Sir David Sterling
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From the Chair
30 April 2024
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disability Action Northern Ireland by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress and Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland by Ms Anyadike-danes
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Executive Office Northern Ireland by Mr Coll KC
Ms Marion Reynolds
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Ms Nuala Toman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
12 December 2023
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Wilcock KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Executive Office Northern Ireland by Ms Fee
Reply Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Transcript for Module 2C Preliminary Hearing dated 29 March 2023
Submissions by Ms Dobbin
Submissions by Ms Campbell
Submissions by Mr Friedman
Submissions by Mr Jacobs
Reply Submissions by Ms Dobbin
2 November 2022
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Lavery
Submissions on Behalf of the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland by Ms Anyadike-danes
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Response Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2C
Module 2B
14 March 2024
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign and Care Rights UK by Mr Straw KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Gardner
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress and Wales Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Kinnier KC
Closing Remarks by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Closing Remarks by the Chair
13 March 2024
Mr Mark Drakeford
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Straw KC
12 March 2024
Baroness Eluned Morgan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From the Chair
Ms Rebecca Evans
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Mr Jeremy Miles
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Mr Straw KC
11 March 2024
Mr Vaughan Gething
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Mr Gardner
7 March 2024
Ms Jane Runeckles
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From the Chair
Mr Toby Mason
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Foubister
Mr Simon Hart
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Heaven
6 March 2024
Dr Quentin Sandifer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Foubister
Questions From Mr Gardner
Ms Shavanah Taj
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Chris Llewelyn
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Foubister
Mr Reginald Kilpatrick
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
5 March 2024
Dr Andrew Goodall
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Harris
Questions From Ms Foubister
Dr Tracey Cooper
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Questions From Ms Foubister
4 March 2024
Sir Frank Atherton
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Foubister
Dr Robert Orford
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Foubister
Dame Morgan
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Gardner
Questions From Ms Foubister
1 March 2024
Dr Chris Williams
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Foubister
Dr Roland Salmon
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Professor Ann John
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Michael Gravenor
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
29 February 2024
Professor Daniel Wincott
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Professor Sir Diamond
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Gowman
Ms Stephanie Howarth
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Mr Gardner
Further Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Robert Hoyle
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
28 February 2024
Ms Elizabeth Grant
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Ms Amanda Provis
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Professor Emmanuel Ogbonna
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Questions From Ms Heaven
Professor Debbie Foster
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Helena Herklots
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Professor Sally Holland
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
27 February 2024
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Gowman
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign and Care Rights UK by Mr Straw KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disability Wales and Disability Rights UK by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Gardner
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress and Wales Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Kinnier KC
A transcript of the Module 2B Third Preliminary Hearing on 12 December 2023
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign and Care Rights UK by Mr Straw KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Howells
Reply Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Transcript of Second Module 2B Preliminary Hearing, dated 29 March 2023
Submissions by Mr Poole
Submissions by Ms Harris
Submissions by Mr Straw
Submissions by Mr Jacobs
Submissions by Mr Friedman
Submissions by Ms Henke
Reply Submissions by Mr Poole
1 November 2022
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Williams
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Williams
Submissions on Behalf of the Relatives & Residents Association and John’s Campaign by Ms Jones
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Howells
Response Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2B
Module 2A
1 February 2024
Mr Alister Jack
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Mr Mitchell KC
Closing Remarks by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Closing Remarks by the Chair
31 January 2024
Ms Nicola Sturgeon
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Mr McCaffery
30 January 2024
Ms Kate Forbes
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Mr John Swinney
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
29 January 2024
Mr Michael Gove
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Ms Jeane Freeman
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
25 January 2024
Ms Rachel Lloyd
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Further Questions From the Chair
Mr Humza Yousaf
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
24 January 2024
Professor Mark Woolhouse
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From the Chair
Professor Stephen Reicher
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Pablo Hidalgo
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Susan McVie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
23 January 2024
Professor Jason Leitch
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Professor Devi Sridhar
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Professor Andrew Morris
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
22 January 2024
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Sir Smith
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Professor Sheila Rowan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
19 January 2024
Ms Lesley Fraser
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Mr Kenneth Thomson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Dr Jim McMenamin
Professor Nick Phin
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
18 January 2024
Professor Paul Cairney
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Dr Donald MacAskill
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Ms Nicola Dickie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
17 January 2024
Mrs Jane Morrison
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Ms Rozanne Foyer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Jim Elder-Woodward
Ms Patrycja Pasternak
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Roger Halliday
Mr Scott Heald
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Dr Audrey MacDougall
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
16 January 2024
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs National Services Scotland by Ms Doherty KC
Submissions on Behalf of Public Health Scotland by Mr Bowie KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Mr Mitchell KC
26 October 2023
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Mr Mitchell KC
Closing Remarks by the Chair
21 March 2023
Submissions by Mr Dawson KC
Submissions by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions by Ms Gallagher KC
Submissions by Mr Mitchell KC
Concluding Remarks by Mr Dawson KC
1 November 2022
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell
Submissions on Behalf of Nhs National Services Scotland by Mr McConnell
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Mr Mitchell
Response Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 2A
Module 2
23 May 2024
Dr Simon Case
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Closing Remarks by the Chair
14 December 2023
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Government Office for Science by Mr Sheldon KC
Submissions on Behalf of Hm Treasury by Mr Block KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Howells
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Ms Drysdale KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Ms Studd KC
13 December 2023
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Harris
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids, Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Mr Metzer KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Executive Office of Northern Ireland by Ms Fee
Submissions on Behalf of Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England by Mr Menon KC
Submissions on Behalf of Solace Women’s Aid and Southall Black Sisters by Ms Davies KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the UK Statistics Authority by Mr Cohen
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
11 December 2023
Mr Rishi Sunak
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
7 December 2023
Mr Boris Johnson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Ms Harris
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Stanton
6 December 2023
Mr Boris Johnson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
1 December 2023
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Harris
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
30 November 2023
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
29 November 2023
Dame Harries
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Sergides
Questions From Mr Stanton
Mr Sajid Javid
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Heaven
Mr Dominic Raab
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
28 November 2023
Mr Michael Gove
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Professor Dame Harries
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
27 November 2023
Mr Sadiq Khan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Mr Andrew Burnham
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Mr Steve Rotheram
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions by Ms Peacock
23 November 2023
Professor Dame McLean
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Kemi Badenoch
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Ms Sergides
22 November 2023
Professor Sir Whitty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Professor Sir Van-Tam
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
21 November 2023
Professor Sir Whitty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
20 November 2023
Sir Patrick Vallance
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
9 November 2023
Mr Martin Hewitt
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Dame Patel
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Ms Jun Pang
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
8 November 2023
Lord Mark Sedwill
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Mr Justin Tomlinson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Ms Davies KC
7 November 2023
Mr Simon Ridley
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Lord Edward Udney-Lister
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From the Chair
6 November 2023
Ms Clare Lombardelli
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Mr Stuart Glassborow
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Ben Warner
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
2 November 2023
Lord Simon Stevens
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Harris
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Sir Christopher Wormald
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Professor Yvonne Doyle
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
1 November 2023
Ms Helen MacNamara
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor David Halpern
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
31 October 2023
Mr Lee Cain
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Mr Dominic Cummings
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Friedman KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
30 October 2023
Mr Martin Reynolds
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Imran Shafi
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Questions From Ms Morris KC
19 October 2023
Professor Catherine Noakes
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Professor John Edmunds
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Case Direction
Professor John Edmunds
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From the Chair
Professor Carl Heneghan
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
18 October 2023
Professor James Rubin
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Professor Lucy Yardley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Sir Horby
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Stone
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
17 October 2023
Professor Steven Riley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Neil Ferguson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Questions From Mr Menon KC
Questions From Mr Dayle
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
16 October 2023
Professor Mark Woolhouse
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Anthony Costello
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Application
Submissions on Behalf of Sir Patrick Vallance by Mr Hill
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Northern Ireland by Ms Morris KC
Submissions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Anthony Costello
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Professor Andrew Hayward
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
13 October 2023
Mr Alex Thomas
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Rachael Evans
Professor Christopher Brightling
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Ondine Sherwood
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
12 October 2023
Dr Stuart Wainwright
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Graham Medley
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Matthew Keeling
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
11 October 2023
Professor Kamlesh Khunti
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Mr Metzer KC
Professor Thomas Hale
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Sir Mark Walport
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
10 October 2023
Lord Gus O’Donnell
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor Sir Diamond
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Mr Gavin Freeguard
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
9 October 2023
Professor Thomas Shakespeare
Professor Nicholas Watson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Mr Kamran Mallick
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor Laia Bécares
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Ailsa Henderson
Questions From Mr O’connor
Questions From Ms Shepherd
6 October 2023
Professor David Taylor-Robinson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Twite
Ms Anne Longfield
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Twite
Ms Kate Bell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Ade Adeyemi
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Clare Wenham
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Davies KC
Ms Rebecca Goshawk
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
5 October 2023
Mrs Catriona Myles
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor James Nazroo
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Professor Philip Banfield
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor James Nazroo
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Professor Thomas KC
Questions From Ms Gowman
Ms Caroline Abrahams
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
4 October 2023
Submissions on Behalf of Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England by Ms Twite
Submissions on Behalf of Solace Women’s Aid and Southall Black Sisters by Ms Davies KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Professor Thomas KC
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council by Mr Phillips KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Government Office for Science by Mr Sheldon KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Howells
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Ms Drysdale KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Ms Studd KC
Ms Joanna Goodman
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Alan Wightman
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
3 October 2023
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Shepherd
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids, Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Mr Metzer KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of the UK Statistics Authority by Mr Cohen
6 June 2023
Introductory Remarks by the Chair
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Maragh
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids, Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Mr Metzer
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman
Submissions on Behalf of Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England by Mr Menon
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
Submissions on Behalf of the Southall Black Sisters by Ms Sergides
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Ms Henke
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Ms Drysdale
Submissions on Behalf of the Association of Directors of the Cabinet Office by Mr Chapman
Reply Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
1 March 2023
Submission by Mr Keith, KC
Submission by Ms Morris
Submissions by Ms Campbell
Submission by Mr Williams, KC
Submission by Mr Metzer
Submission by Mr Friedman, KC
Submission by Ms Twite
Submission by Ms Davies, KC
Submissions by Ms Goshawk
Submissions by Ms Gallagher KC
Submission by Mr Dayle
31 October 2022
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Group by Mr Weatherby
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Lavery
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Williams
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell
Submissions on Behalf of Just for Kids Law, Save the Children UK and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England by Ms Twite
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Groups and Disabled People’s Organisations by Ms Sivakumaran
Submissions on Behalf of Solace Women’s Aid and Southall Black Sisters by Ms Davies
Submissions on Behalf of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations by Mr Dayle
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Ms Gallagher
Submissions on Behalf of the Government Office for Science by Mr Hill
Response Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Module 1
Transcript of Module 10 Second Preliminary Hearing on 4 November 2025
Submissions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 10
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of Mind by Mr Pezzani
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Parsons
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Bindman
Submissions on Behalf of the Disabled People’s Organisations by Ms Beattie
Submissions on Behalf of the Domestic Abuse Group by Ms Sergides
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Migrants’ Rights Consortium by Ms Weereratne KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Transcript of Module 10 Preliminary Hearing on 18 February 2025
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 10
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Stone
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Northern Ireland by Ms McDermott
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Ms Beattie
Submissions on Behalf of the Domestic Abuse Group by Ms Davies KC
Submissions on Behalf of Shelter by Mr Westgate KC
Submissions on Behalf of Justice Sector Coalition by Ms Munroe
Submissions on Behalf of Prison and Immigration Detention Advocacy Group by Mr O’ceallaigh KC Mr O’ceallaigh: I’m Very Grateful. I Appear for the Prison and Immigration Detention Advisory Group Alongside Paul Clark, Instructed by Joseph Latimer of the Public Interest Law Centre. It Is A Long-established Legal Principle That Those Incarcerated At the Hands of the State Are In A Singularly Vulnerable Position and That, As A Result, the State Has A Duty to Protect Them. This Module Will Be the First to Consider the Respects In Which During the Covid-19 Pandemic the British State Either Met That Duty Or Failed to Meet It. As A Body Composed of Leading National Charities Representing the Interests of Those Detained Both In the Criminal Justice System and Pursuant to Immigration Detention Powers, the Prison and Immigration Detention Advisory Group, Or Pidag, Is Very Grateful to Have Been Designated A Core Participant In This Module. In These Short Submissions, I Propose to Address the Charities Briefly, and I Want to Say A Little About Decision Making, Roundtable Events, the Systematic Evidence Review, and Then Some Matters Arising From What the Other Cps Have Said This Morning. We Commend Our Written Submissions to My Lady, and We Don’t Propose to Repeat Them. Pidag Would Particularly Like to Emphasise the List of Potentially Important Issues That We Set Out At Paragraph 14 of That Document. by Way of Very Short Introduction, Pidag Is Composed of Four Charities. First, the Howard League for Penal Reform Is the World’s Oldest Prison Charity. It Engages In A Broad Range of Activities Which Encompass Direct Contact With Persons Who Are Detained In Prison, Including Those Who Are Especially Vulnerable In That Category, Such As Children, and Policy and Campaigning Work. During the Pandemic, the Howard League Provided Support to Prisoners, In Particular Children and Young People, As the Charity Runs the Only Dedicated Legal Advice Line for Children and Young People In Custody Aged 21 and Under In England and Wales. Bail for Immigration Detainees, Or Bid, Is A Charity Devoted to Securing Access to Justice for People In Immigration Detention. Bid Supports Thousands of Detainees Annually by Providing Representation In Bail Applications All Across the UK, As Well As Free Legal Advice, Both In Person and by Telephone. Bid Is One of Only A Handful of Organisations That Works Across the Country and Across the Entirety of the Detention Estate. Bid Also Conducts Field Research and Uses Case Sample Analyses of Its Casework As the Basis for Extensive Publications and Gives Evidence to Government and International Human Rights Bodies. the Prison Reform Trust Is A Charity That Conducts Extensive Research Into the Workings of the Prison System In Order to Inform Prisoners, Prison Staff and the Wider Public and to Encourage Public Debate on Prison Conditions and the Treatment of Prisoners. It Also Provides Advice and Assistance to Prisoners and Their Families In the Form of Written Guides and A Telephone Advice Line. Prt Publishes Extensively, Including Both Detailed Research Reports on the Penal System and Short, Focussed Briefings. Importantly, During the Pandemic, Prt Initiated the Urgent Covid-19 Action Prison Project: Tracking Innovation, Valuing Experience, Or Capptive, Through Its Prisoner Policy Network, Which Described and Recorded Life In Prison During the Pandemic In Prisoners’ Own Voices Following Hundreds of Responses. Medical Justice Is A Charity That Works to Uphold the Health and Associated Legal Rights of People In Immigration Detention. Working With Clinicians and Interpreters, Mj Facilitates the Provision of Independent Medical Advice and Assessment of Those Detained Under Immigration Powers, As Well As Conducting Research Into Issues Affecting People In Immigration Detention, and Producing Detailed Reports. Mj Handles Between 500 and 1,000 Cases A Year and Continued Its Work During the Pandemic. the Pandemic Was A Frightening Time for All, But There’s A Particular Terror That Comes From Facing the Disaster Through A Locked Door. Some Prisoners Were Kept In Their Cells for 23 and A Half Hours A Day, People Were Held for Longer Than Necessary and In Worse Conditions. Whilst Many of the Dangers That Apply to Society At Large Were Applicable In Prison, There Were Additional Dangers Faced by Prisoners and Immigration Detainees That Simply Did Not Apply to the General Population. People Died, for Example, Because of the Limitations Placed on the Assessment, Care and Custody and Teamwork System Because of Changes to the Prison Regime and for Other Reasons Which Were Specific to Detention As A Context. Many of These Reasons Persisted Long After the Pandemic Was Over. That Is A Long Tail of Covid-19. We’re Very Grateful to Ms Blackwell King’s Counsel’s Indication That There Is Room for Considering the Ongoing Impact of the Pandemic. the Pidag Charities Hope to Assist the Inquiry In Examining the Particular Consequences of the Pandemic on the Especially Vulnerable Cohorts They Try to Speak for, Including the Ongoing Consequences, and That Long Shadow. In Respect of Decision Making, We Fully Accept and Understand What Ms Blackwell KC Had to Say About the Fact That There Has Already Been A Separate Module on Decision Making, But As Far As We’re Aware, Module 2 Did Not Consider What Happened Behind the Locked Doors of Detention Centres In Prisons. to Understand What Happened In Those Dark Places, There Will Have to Be Some Consideration of, for Example, First, the Policy Choice Not to Have A Proper Early-release System; Second, the Policy Choice to Continue to Use Immigration Detention With No Time Limit As A Tool At A Time When Removals, the Supposed Purpose of Such Detention, Was Literally Impossible. Pidag Is Anxious That the Careful Delineation of Issues Necessary In Such A Broad Inquiry As This Is Not At the Expense of Allowing It to Understand Where Impacts and Harms Arose Directly From Deliberate Policy Decisions. Without That Analysis, It Will Not Be Possible for the Inquiry to Make the Recommendations That Will Lead to Better Outcomes In Any Future Pandemic. on Roundtable Events, I’d Like to Briefly Address the Proposals We’ve Had. I Set Out In Our Submissions Pidag Very Much Welcomes the Concept of the Roundtable Events. However, It Remains Our Position That the Category of Prisons and Other Places of Detention and Those Affected by the Operation of the Justice System Is Just Too Broadly Drawn. Pidag Is Very Anxious That Both of Those Topics Are Examined Fully and, In Our View, That Is Likely to Mean Separate Roundtables. In Our Written Submissions, We Flag Three Reasons for Adopting That Position: First, Those Imprisoned by the State Are In A Position That’s Uniquely Separate From the Rest of Society. Their Experiences During the Pandemic Were Vastly Different From Those of People Who Had Their Liberty. In Circumstances Where This Is the Module to Fully Examine Those Experiences, There Is Considerable Value In Having A Roundtable Dedicated to Them. Second, While Those Who Were In Detention During the Pandemic Will Inevitably Have Experienced the Justice System In One Form Or Another, There Will Be Many Detainees and Prisoners for Whom the Experience of the Justice System Itself Wasn’t Critical to Their Experience of the Pandemic, for Example Because It Predated March 2020. Third, the Justice System Itself Is A Very Broad Topic That Merits Its Own Roundtable and Will Require Consideration of Those Issues Outside the Scope Or the Experience of Most Prisoners Or Detainees, As You’ve Heard Very Eloquently From Ms Munroe, King’s Counsel. There Is A Real Issue, In Our Submission, That If Those Issues Are Addressed At A Roundtable Together With Issues Facing Detainees and Prisoners, Neither Set of Issues Is Examined Adequately. to Those Reasons We Would Add A Fourth: the Key Purpose of This Inquiry Is to Learn Lessons for the Next One. Prisoners and Immigration Detainees Are A Group That Will by Definition Be Affected Differently and, Almost Certainly, More Severely Than the General Public In Any Future Pandemic. It Is Important That the Analysis of the Failings and Successes of the Pandemic In This Important Metric Is Not Swamped by the Many Complex Issues Caused by the Pandemic In Respect of the Justice System More Generally. In That Context We Endorse the Comments of the Justice Sector Coalition In Paragraph 12 of Their Helpful Submissions. We Have Had A Useful Conversation With Ms Blackwell KC, to Which Ms Munroe Has Already Referred, This Morning, and Her Team, and We Appreciate Them Taking the Time to Speak to Us. We Also Appreciate, If I May Say, the Collegiate Approach Suggested by That Discussion and by Her Submissions This Morning. We’ve Been Given to Understand That There Will Be Proper Moderation and Separate Breakout Rooms Now At These Roundtables, Which May Facilitate At Least Some Detailed Examination of the Issues Affecting Immigration Detainees and Prisoners, Ms Blackwell KC Helpfully Indicated That Further Details of the Roundtables Will Be Provided, That Detail Will Be Essential. Pidag Sees the Roundtables As An Enormous Opportunity for Really Effective Evidence Gathering and Is Anxious That the Opportunity Is Taken. We Would Welcome the Opportunity to Have Input Into the Structures of Those Roundtables. If, Contrary to Our Submissions, My Lady Takes the View That It Is Not Appropriate to Have Separate Roundtables for the Justice System and for Those Incarcerated, We Would Ask That the Inquiry Keep Under Review the Possibility of Having Further Roundtables If the Experience of Conducting Them Shows That This Is Required. In Respect of the Systematic Evidence Review, I’d Like to Deal Shortly With That. Again, Pidag Is Very Supportive of This Approach, Which Will Hopefully Provide the Inquiry With An Extremely Useful Evidence Base. the Charities Wish, However, to Flesh Out Three Short Points Flagged by Ms Blackwell KC Earlier on. First, the Specific Context of Incarceration Means That It Is Vital That Both Prisoners and People In Immigration Detention Are Among the Demographic Groups That Are Identified for Consideration. As I’ve Already Noted, It Is Highly Likely to Be of Use In Planning for and Responding to Any Future Pandemic. Second, the Work of Each of Pidag’s Constituent Organisations, Who Have Done A Vast Amount of Work on This, Should Be Part of A Systematic Review of Any Available Reach. Third, Pidag Considers That It Will Be Particularly Important to Consider the Position of Those Incarcerated and Those Subject to Extreme Limitations on the Ability to Exercise When Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic on Physical Activity, As Well As Access to Support Services. In Respect of the Comments Made by Some of the Other Core Participants, We’ve Had An Opportunity to Consider Them Now. We Wish to Adopt the Following Submissions: First, the Submissions From the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice At Paragraph 17, That Roundtable Events Should Be Organised With Advice From An Expert, Such As A Bereavement Counsellor, Or Psychologist, and Approached In A Trauma-focused Way Which Facilitates Participation and Creates An Atmosphere In Which the Bereaved Feel Heard. Second, the Submission of the Disabled People’s Organisations In Paragraph 3.6, That the Inquiry Must Examine the Position of Disabled People In Prison, to Which We Would Add That It Must Also Consider the Position of Disabled People Who Are In Immigration Detention. Third, We Endorse the Query Raised by Mind Paragraph 16, the Tuc At Paragraph 18 and Shelter and the Da Group Today In Respect of the Question of Whether Three Weeks Will Be Sufficient Time to Hear Important Evidence. This Is A Concern Raised In Our Own Submissions and One That Will Apply With Greater Force If the Roundtables Don’t Turn Out to Be As Effective As Hoped. Finally, We Endorse the Request That the Da Group At Paragraph 14 for Confirmation That the List of Potential Invitees Supplied by Core Participants for Roundtable Events Will Be Considered. In Conclusion, My Lady, and to Recall Something Said by Ms Munroe KC Earlier, It Was the American Author, Pearl Buck, Who Wrote That the Test of A Civilisation Is the Way That It Cares for Its Helpless Members. Those Incarcerated by the State Are, Particularly During A National Emergency Like A Pandemic, Among Its Most Helpless, Most Powerless, Most Vulnerable Members. Pidag Looks Forward to Assisting the Inquiry As Much As It Can In Its Task of Determining Whether the United Kingdom Passed That Test During the Pandemic and Setting Out Ways of Ensuring That In Any Future Pandemic It Does Better. Those Are Our Submissions.
Submissions on Behalf of Migrants’ Rights Consortium by Ms Moffatt
Submissions on Behalf of Trades Union Congress by Ms Peacock
19 July 2023
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and Welsh Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Government Office for Science by Mr Hill
Submissions on Behalf of His Majesty’s Treasury by Mr Block KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Ms Studd KC
18 July 2023
Mr Matt Fowler
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Mrs Jane Morrison
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Brenda Doherty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Lavery KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Association of Directors of Public Health by Mr Ford KC
17 July 2023
Mr Gerry Murphy
Ms Kate Bell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Questions From Mr Fegan
Professor Philip Banfield
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Dr Jennifer Dixon
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Michael Adamson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
13 July 2023
Mr Marcus Bell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Melanie Field
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Nigel Edwards
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Richard Horton
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Mr Michael Gove
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
12 July 2023
Ms Michelle O’Neill
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Lavery KC
Mr Chris Llewelyn
Mr Mark Lloyd
Ms Alison Allen
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Mr Aidan Dawson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
11 July 2023
Baroness Arlene Foster
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Mr Lavery KC
Mr Richard Pengelly
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
10 July 2023
Dr Claas Kirchhelle
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Lavery KC
Professor Sir McBride
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From the Chair
6 July 2023
Dr Denis McMahon
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Lavery KC
Mr Reginald Kilpatrick
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Gowman
Mr Robin Swann
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Lavery KC
5 July 2023
Dr Catherine Calderwood
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Professor Jim McManus
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor Kevin Fenton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor Mark Woolhouse
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
4 July 2023
Dr Andrew Goodall
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry (continued)
Questions From Ms Harris
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Quentin Sandifer
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Shepherd
Mr Vaughan Gething
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions by Ms Shepherd
Mr Mark Drakeford
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
3 July 2023
Sir Frank Atherton
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Heaven
Questions From the Chair
Dr Andrew Goodall
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
29 June 2023
Sir Jeremy Farrar
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Nicola Sturgeon
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Anwar
Mr John Swinney
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Ms Catherine Frances
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
28 June 2023
Ms Gillian Russell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Jeane Freeman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
27 June 2023
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Duncan Selbie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
26 June 2023
Ms Emma Reed
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Mrs Rosemary Gallagher
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Dame Harries
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
22 June 2023
Mr Roger Hargreaves
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Sir Whitty
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Sir Patrick Vallance
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Stone
Dr Jim McMenamin
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
21 June 2023
Sir Mark Walport
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Oliver Dowden
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Mr Jeremy Hunt
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
20 June 2023
Sir Oliver Letwin
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Mr George Osborne
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dame Davies
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
19 June 2023
Mr David Cameron
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Mitchell KC
Sir Christopher Wormald
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Ms Clara Swinson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
16 June 2023
Professor Sir Marmot and Professor Clare Bambra
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Ms Katharine Hammond
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Further Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
15 June 2023
Professor David Heymann
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Munroe KC
Professor David Alexander and Mr Bruce Mann
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
14 June 2023
Submissions on Behalf of Public Health Scotland by Mr Bowie KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Government Office for Science by Mr Hill
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care by Ms Scolding KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Kinnier KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Mr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Executive Office Northern Ireland by Mr Sharpe KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Mr Strachan KC
Professor Jimmy Whitworth and Dr Charlotte Hammer
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
13 June 2023
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Lavery KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the British Medical Association by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Department of Health by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Association of Directors of Public Health by Mr Ford KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and Welsh Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Transcript of the Third Module 1 Preliminary Hearing, 25 April 2023
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Lavery
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Ms Mitchell
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Heaven
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Ms Murphy
14 February 2023
Submissions by Mr Keith, KC
Submissions by Mr Weatherby, KC
Submissions by Ms Campbell, KC
Submissions by Ms Mitchell, KC
Submissions by Mr Williams, KC
Submissions by Ms Gallagher, KC
Reply Submissions by Mr Keith, KC
4 October 2022
Opening Remarks by Lady Hallett
Opening Statement by Mr Keith
Opening Statement by Mr Weatherby
Opening Statement by Mr Lavery
Opening Statement by Ms Mitchell
Opening Statement by Mr Bermingham
Opening Statement by Ms Gallagher
Opening Statement by Ms Henke
Opening Statement by Ms Spearing
Response Statement by Mr Keith
Module 6
31-07-2025
Mitchell KC
Professor Rayner
Dr Townson
Ms Peacock
Mr Boyle KC
Khalique KC
Mitchell KC
Allen KC
Closing Remarks by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Closing Remarks by the Chair
30-07-2025
Professor Stephen Barclay
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From the Chair
Ms Catherine Griffiths
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Ms Linda Dinsdale
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Gregory McQuitty
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Rhona Arthur
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
29-07-2025
Ms Claire Sutton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Ms Helen Wildbore
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Francesca Humi
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Joanne Sansome
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
28 July 2025
Ms Joanna Killian
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Beattie
Dr Maria Rossi
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Mr Paul Featherstone
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From the Chair
Professor Chris Hatton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Beattie
24-07-2025
Professor Sir McBride
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Mr Robin Swann
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
23-07-2025
Professor Sube Banerjee
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Jones
Ms Cathryn Williams
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Mr Alwyn Jones
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Jones
Mr Eddie Lynch
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Jones
22-07-2025
Mr Alasdair Donaldson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Stone
Ms Jeane Freeman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Ms Caroline Lamb
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Beattie
21-07-2025
Professor Sean Holland
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Ms Nicola Dickie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Ms Nadra Ahmed
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
17-07-2025
Ms Helen Whately
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Weston KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
16-07-2025
Ms Caroline Abrahams
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Foley
Ms Emily Holzhausen
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Jones
Ms Michelle Dyson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
15-07-2025
Mr Vaughan Gething
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Ms Jones
Mr Albert Heaney
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Jones
Questions From Ms Beattie
14-07-2025
Dr Jane Townson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Sir Sajid Javid
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Weston KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Mr Boyle KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Ms Heléna Herklots
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
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Questions From Mr Straw KC
Ms Melanie Minty
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Mr Straw KC
10-07-2025
Dr Chris Llewelyn
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Jones
Professor Ian Hall
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Stone
Questions From Ms Jones
Ms Heather Reid
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Ms Susan Lyons
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
9-07-2025
Professor Susan Hopkins
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Dame Harries
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
8-07-2025
Ms Julie Parkinson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Kevin Mitchell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Dr Mitchell KC
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Professor Fu-Meng Khaw
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Ms Christina McAnea
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Mr Clarke
7-07-2025
Ms Mary Cridge
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Morris KC
Questions From Ms Jessica Jones
Questions From Ms Beattie
Ms Briege Donaghy
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Campbell KC
Ms Gillian Baranski
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Beattie
3-07-2025
Dr Ruth Allen
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wilcock KC
Questions From Mr Stanton
Questions From Ms Foubister
Professor Vic Rayner
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Foubister
Reverend Hudd
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
2-07-2025
Mr Matt Hancock
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Ms Weston KC
Questions From Mr Straw KC
Questions From Mr Payter
Questions From Mr Burton KC
Questions From Ms Wilkinson KC
Questions From the Chair
1 July 2025
Ms Jane Wier-Wierzbowska
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Judith Kilbee
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Agnes McCusker
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Helen Hough
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Professor Laura Shallcross
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Questions From Mr Weatherby KC
Questions From Ms Jessica Jones
30th June 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Stanton KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disability Rights UK, Disability Action Northern Ireland, Disability Wales and Inclusion Scotland by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, the Patients Association, and Care Rights UK by Ms Jessica Jones
Submissions on Behalf of the Frontline Migrant Healthcare Workers Group by Ms Weston KC
Submissions on Behalf of the National Association of Care and Support Workers by Mr Payter
Submissions on Behalf of the National Care Forum by Professor Rayner
Submissions on Behalf of the Homecare Association by Dr Townson
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Nursing by Mr Boyle KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and Welsh Local Government Association by Mr Allen KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Association of Directors of Social Services by Ms Stober
Submissions on Behalf of the Department of Health In Northern Ireland by Ms Murnaghan KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Ms Khalique KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Ministers by Mr Mitchell KC
5 February 2025
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Mr Weatherby KC
Submissions on Behalf of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Dr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Mr Stanton
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Ms Irving
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, Care Rights UK and the Patients Association by Ms Jones
Submissions on Behalf of Frontline Migrant Health Workers Group: United Voices of the Word, Independent Workers of Great Britain and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium by Ms Weston KC
Submissions on Behalf of Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
19 March 2024
Introductory Remarks by the Chair
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 6
Submissions on Behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice UK by Ms Anna Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice by Ms Campbell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Scottish Covid Bereaved by Mr Henry
Submissions on Behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru by Ms Gowman
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of National Care Forum, Homecare Association and Care England by Dr Townson
Submissions on Behalf of John’s Campaign, the Patients Association and Care Rights UK by Ms Morgan
Submissions on Behalf of Frontline Migrant Health Workers Group by Mr Marquis
Submissions on Behalf of National Association of Care and Support Workers by Mr Payter
Submissions on Behalf of the Royal College of Nursing by Ms Fenella Morris KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Ms Curtain
Module 8
23 October 2025
Ms Rocio Mbe
Mr Chris Quinn
Ms Nicola Obe
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Mr Jacobs
Ms Bicarregui
Drysdale KC
Closing Remarks by the Chair
22 October 2025
Professor Russell Cbe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Professor Catherine Obe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Douglas
Mr Mark Drakeford
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Iengar
21 October 2025
Mr Boris Johnson
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Questions From the Chair
Sir Matthew Cbe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
20 October 2025
Professor Sir KCb
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Mr Martin Qpm
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
16 October 2025
Dr Shona Arora
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Iengar
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Ms Carolyne Willow
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Lucy KC
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Jichi
Questions From Mr Gardner
15 October 2025
Ms Susan Acland-Hood
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Twite
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Douglas
Mr Derek Baker
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
14 October 2025
Sir Gavin Cbe
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Twomey KC
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Ms Jean Blair
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
13 October 2025
Ms Indra Morris
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor Samantha Baron
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mrs Vicky Ford
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Mr Twomey KC
Questions From Ms Iqbal
Questions From Ms Irving
Questions From Mr Broach KC
9 October 2025
Ms Nicola Dickie
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Ms Sarah Hammond
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Ms Sharon Powell
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Mr John Msp
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Broach KC
8 October 2025
Mr Duncan Burton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Ms Douglas
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Professor Steve Turner
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
Ms Claire Obe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Alison Morton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr John Barneby
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
7 October 2025
Ms Amanda Stocks
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Mr Lyndon Lewis
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From the Chair
Mr Paul Marks
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Kate Davies
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Professor Emerita McCluskey
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Mr Jacobs
6 October 2025
Mr Matthew Cb
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Sir Jon Coles
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Sir Hamid Cbe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Kevin Courtney
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
2 October 2025
Baroness Anne Longfield
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Iengar
Questions From Mr Twomey KC
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Ms Douglas
Questions From the Chair
Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From the Chair
Questions From Ms Iqbal
1 October 2025
Ms Nuala Toman
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Ms Sammie McFarland
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Iengar
Ms Kate Anstey
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Ms Lara Wong
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Rebecca Montacute
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Ms Anyadike-danes KC
30 September 2025
Dr Carol Cbe
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Charlie Taylor
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Ms Alice Ferguson
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From the Chair
Professor Catherine Davies
Questions From Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Questions From Mr Broach KC
Questions From Mr Wagner KC
29 September 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Submissions on Behalf of Children’s Rights Organisations by Mr Broach KC
Submissions on Behalf of Article 39 by Mr Twomey KC
Submissions on Behalf of Coram by Ms King KC
Submissions on Behalf of Disability Rights UK, Disability Wales, and Disability Action Northern Ireland by Ms Beattie
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People by Ms Anyadike-danes
Submissions on Behalf of Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Gardner
Submissions on Behalf of the Local Government Association and Welsh Local Government Association by Ms Stober
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Ms Bicarregui
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Government by Ms Drysdale KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Department for Education by Ms Ward KC
11 June 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Submissions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 8
Submissions on Behalf of Children’s Rights Organisations by Mr Broach KC
Submissions on Behalf of Coram Group by Ms King KC
Submissions on Behalf of Article 39 by Ms McCabe
Submissions on Behalf of Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Gardner
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner KC
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Groups by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
6 September 2024
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Children’s Rights Organisations by Mr Broach
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Ms Beattie
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Kids and Long Covid Kids Scotland by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families by Mr Wagner
Submissions on Behalf of the Coram Group by Ms King KC
Submissions on Behalf of Article 39 by Ms Cover
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales by Mr Gardner
Submissions on Behalf of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People by Ms McGurk
Submissions on Behalf of the Department for Education by Ms Masood
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Ms Bicarregui
Submissions on Behalf of the Sutton Trust by Dr Montacute
Module 9
18 December 2025
Block KC
Mr Mitchell KC
Ms Walters
Stober
Hannett KC
Mr Jacobs
Ms Smyth KC
Closing Remarks by the Chair
17 December 2025
Mr Gareth Davies
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Questions From the Chair
Ms Naomi Clayton
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Sarah Cumbers
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Grant Fitzner
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
16 December 2025
The Sunak
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
Mr Robert Joyce
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
15 December 2025
The Sunak
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
11 December 2025
The King
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Andrew Bailey
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
10 December 2025
Mr Mark Cheeseman
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
The Sharma
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Ms Peacock
Questions From Ms Beattie
9 December 2025
Ms Kate Nicholls
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr David Postings
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Reinald Monchy
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Richard Bearman
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
8 December 2025
Mr Alex Skinner
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Sir Charles Roxburgh
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Beattie
3 December 2025
Ms Kate Forbes
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Lady Dodds
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
2 December 2025
Sir James Harra
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Dame Moriarty
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Mr Steve Barclay
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
1 December 2025
Ms Sarah Elliott
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Sir Oliver Dowden
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Ms Kate Bell
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Dr Tim Leunig
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Mr Jacobs
27 November 2025
Mr Robert Harrison
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Beattie
Mr James Benford
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Ms Beattie
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Mr Dan York-Smith
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Beattie
Dr Ben Warner
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
26 November 2025
Lady Coffey
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Hannett KC
Questions From Mr Ahluwalia
Questions From Ms Beattie
Mr Mike Ormerod
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
25 November 2025
Dr Mike Brewer
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Ms Sophie Howes
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Mr Kamran Mallick
Questions From Counsel to the Inquiry
Questions From Mr Jacobs
Mr Will Quince
Questions From Richard Wright KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Questions From Ms Sivakumaran
Questions From Ms Smyth KC
Questions From Ms Beattie
24 November 2025
Opening Remarks by the Chair
Opening Statement by Richard Wright KC Lead Counsel to the
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations, Disability Rights UK and Disability Action Northern Ireland by Ms Beattie
Submissions on Behalf of Child Poverty Action Group by Ms Smyth KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Long Covid Groups by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Trades Union Congress by Mr Jacobs
Submissions on Behalf of the British Business Bank by Mr Lissack KC
Submissions on Behalf of the Scottish Ministers by Mr Mitchell KC
Submissions on Behalf of Welsh Government by Ms Walters
Submissions on Behalf of the Cabinet Office by Mr Chapman
Submissions on Behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions by Mr Block KC
Submissions on Behalf of His Majesty’s Treasury by Mr Block KC
Transcript of Module 9 Second Preliminary Hearing, dated 10 September 2025
Submissions by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry for Module 9
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid Support and Long Covid SOS by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of Child Poverty Action Group by Mr Ahluwalia
23 October 2024
Statement by Lead Counsel to the Inquiry
Submissions on Behalf of Disabled People’s Organisations by Mr Friedman KC
Submissions on Behalf of Long Covid SOS and Long Covid Support by Ms Hannett KC
Submissions on Behalf of Child Poverty Action Group by Ms Smyth
Submissions on Behalf of the Welsh Government by Mr Castle
Core participants
Searchable transcripts of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearings
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