COVID-19 Inquiry

Parliamentary Activity

256 mentions in Parliament since Jul 2020.

Mentions

Hansard, written questions, statements, EDMs
18 Dec 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Commons UK COVID-19 Inquiry response costs for Quarter 2 25/26
Nick Thomas-SymondsLabour → Cabinet Office
The UK COVID-19 Inquiry is examining the UK’s response to and impact of the pandemic. The government is fully committed to supporting the work of the COVID-19 Inquiry and to learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the UK is better prepared f...
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05 Dec 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry
Jo PlattLabour → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the findings and recommendations of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry are incorporated into future pandemic planning and preparedness exercises.
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05 Dec 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry
Jo PlattLabour → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the reports by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
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24 Nov 2025 Written Question Lords Disease Control
Baroness DeechCrossbench → Cabinet Office
To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the findings of the report published on 20 November by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report: Core decision-making and political governance, what assessment they have made of the advisability
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24 Nov 2025 Written Question Lords Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
Lord PicklesConservative → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans to establish a taskforce to oversee the implementation of Exercise Pegasus findings.
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24 Nov 2025 Written Question Lords Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
Lord PicklesConservative → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans are in place to monitor progress towards the recommendations arising from Exercise Pegasus.
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20 Nov 2025 Written Question Commons Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
Richard FoordLiberal Democrat → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UK Resilience Academy's Exercising Best Practice Guidance, whether external expert observers and evaluators have been involved in Exercise Pegasus; and what steps he is taking
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20 Nov 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Lords UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report
Baroness Smith of BasildonLabour → Leader of the House of Lords
My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made the following statement:The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has today published the Inquiry’s Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C report, which examined core UK decision-making and political governance.The Chair recognises t...
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20 Nov 2025 Written Question Commons Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
Richard FoordLiberal Democrat → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Recommendations 6 and 7 of Module 1 of the UK Covid 19 Inquiry, what steps he is taking to (1) gather and (2) publish findings, lessons and recommendations within the recommended
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20 Nov 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Commons UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report
Sir Keir StarmerLabour → Prime Minister
The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has today published the Inquiry’s Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C report, which examined core UK decision-making and political governance. The Chair recognises the appalling loss of life and devastating socio-economic consequence...
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18 Nov 2025 Early Day Motion Commons World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025
Dr Danny ChambersLiberal Democrat
That this House recognises and marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025; notes that the theme this year is Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future and urges bold, united action; further notes that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to an estimated 35,200 deaths annually in the UK, with drug-resistant infections in humans rising by 13 per cent despite a target to reduce them by 10 per cent; acknowledges that, in England, 1 in 5 hospital beds are occupied by pati...
10 Nov 2025 Written Question Commons Disease Control
Ben Obese-JectyConservative → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the outcome of the national exercise for pandemic preparedness conducted in 2025.
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27 Oct 2025 Written Question Commons Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
Dan NorrisIndependent → Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve cross-Government coordination on preparedness for a future pandemic.
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21 Oct 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry
James McMurdockIndependent → Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry since its establishment.
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16 Sep 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Commons Exercise PEGASUS – Pandemic Preparedness
Ashley DaltonLabour → Department of Health and Social Care
I am today confirming that, on the 18th of September, Exercise PEGASUS, the National ‘Tier 1’ pandemic preparedness exercise set to assess the UK’s ability to respond to a pandemic, will commence.A pandemic remains the top risk of the UK’s National Risk R...
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16 Sep 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Lords Exercise PEGASUS – Pandemic Preparedness
Baroness MerronLabour → Department of Health and Social Care
My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention (Ashley Dalton MP) has made the following statement:I am today confirming that, on the 18th of September, Exercise PEGASUS, the National ‘Tier 1’ pandemic pre...
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04 Sep 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Lords UK COVID-19 Inquiry response costs for Quarter 1 25/26
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-TrentLabour → Cabinet Office
My Right Honourable friend, the Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, has today made the following statement:The Covid-19 pandemic impacted each and every person in the UK. The work of the UK Covid-19 I...
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04 Sep 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Commons UK COVID-19 Inquiry response costs for Quarter 1 25/26
Nick Thomas-SymondsLabour → Cabinet Office
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted each and every person in the UK. The work of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is crucial in examining the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. There are evidently lessons to be learnt from the pandemic and the govern...
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01 Sep 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry: Disclosure of Information
Helen MaguireLiberal Democrat → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure that evidence submitted to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from (a) bereaved families and (b) their legal representative is represented in (i) published mat
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01 Sep 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry: Disclosure of Information
Helen MaguireLiberal Democrat → Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will release all bereavement case studies submitted to Module 4 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in a timely manner.
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22 Jul 2025 Written Question Commons Covid-19 Inquiry
Johanna BaxterLabour → Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will publish (a) a timeline for the completion of the implementation of UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 1 recommendations and (b) target dates for actions in progress.
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08 Jul 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Lords UK Government Resilience Action Plan
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-TrentLabour → Cabinet Office
My Right Honourable friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Rt Hon. Pat McFadden MP, has today made the following statement:Today I have updated the House on the publication of the UK Government’s Resilience Action Plan, this government’s str...
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08 Jul 2025 Written Ministerial Statement Commons UK Government Resilience Action Plan
Pat McFaddenLabour → Cabinet Office
Today I have updated the House on the publication of the UK Government’s Resilience Action Plan, this government’s strategic approach to resilience. It is the outcome of the resilience review which I announced to the House in July last year.Alongside this...
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20 Jun 2025 Early Day Motion Commons Cancer Prevention Action Week on alcohol and cancer
Cat SmithLabour
That this House commemorates Cancer Prevention Action Week on alcohol and cancer organised by World Cancer Research Fund and supported by 25 organisations working to reduce alcohol harm and cancer incidence and improve public health; acknowledges that alcohol is a Group One carcinogen and a well-established modifiable risk factor for seven cancer types, including two of the most common in the UK, breast and bowel; highlights that these risks are present even at low levels of consumption; note...
02 Jun 2025 Early Day Motion Commons Long covid in children and young people
Victoria CollinsLiberal Democrat
That this House notes with concern the significant impact of long covid on children and young people across the UK, with thousands experiencing prolonged symptoms following covid-19 infection; regrets the serious consequences for children’s health, education, and family wellbeing; further notes the strain on schools and healthcare services; recognises the need for more research into long covid in children; calls on the Government to work with relevant organisations to ensure affected children...