Source · Select Committees · Science and Technology Committee (Commons)
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
A response document is linked to this report, dated 30 June 2022. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗