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Recommendation 8
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Acknowledged
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We support the creation of the UK Health Security Agency as a new body designed...
Recommendation
We support the creation of the UK Health Security Agency as a new body designed to ensure the nation can respond quickly and at greater scale to future pandemics. In line with Lord Wolfson’s suggestion that expertise in the criminal law needs in future to be brought into pandemic planning, we urge the Government to ensure that the Agency has sufficient expertise in the criminal law, and factors such expertise into future pandemic preparation. We support the creation of the UK Health Security Agency as a new body designed to ensure the nation can respond quickly and at greater scale to future pandemics.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government acknowledges the need for lessons learned and states central government departments are best placed to consider the criminal justice system's role and ensure relevant expertise is fed into the policy process for future pandemic preparedness. It does not explicitly commit to ensuring UKHSA itself has sufficient criminal law expertise.
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Government Response
The government responded to this report on 8 September 2022. No passage in that response could be matched to this recommendation. Read the response document ↗