Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 128
128
It is impossible to know whether a circuit breaker would have had a material effect...
Conclusion
It is impossible to know whether a circuit breaker would have had a material effect in preventing a second lockdown, given that such an approach was pursued in Wales, which still ended up having further restrictions in December 2020. But it seems that Ministers were mistaken in the weeks after the first wave abated in taking an optimistic assumption that the worst was behind us.199 The second lockdown
Government Response
The government responded to this report on 30 June 2022. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗