Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 22
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In the light of starkly disproportionate and tragic data on death rates from coronavirus of...
Conclusion
In the light of starkly disproportionate and tragic data on death rates from coronavirus of disabled people, including shocking figures for deaths of people, including young people, with learning disabilities, there must be a discrete independent inquiry into the causes. It must be a wide-ranging inquiry, including consideration of the role of the Government’s and public authorities’ policies and decisions in adverse outcomes for disabled people. The independent inquiry must be established as soon as we have gained control of the pandemic, which we all hope will be in the first half of 2021. (Paragraph 134) Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report 47
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The important job at the moment is keeping people safe from Coronavirus. We will think about looking at what happened during the Coronavirus emergency afterwards.