Pandemic Exercises to Include Emergency Procurement
COVID-19 Inquiry · Module 5: Procurement · Issued 14 July 2026 · Addressed to: Cabinet Office
Government responseWelsh Government: No response yet (Sep 2026)Scottish Government: No response yet (Sep 2026)Northern Ireland Executive: No response yet (Sep 2026)
DeliveryNo statement from Cabinet Office found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The UK government and devolved administrations should evaluate the readiness of the structures, systems and processes for the emergency procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment as part of UK-wide pandemic response exercises.
COVID-19 Inquiry, Module 5: Procurement · 14 Jul 2026 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry asked governments to evaluate emergency healthcare procurement systems during pandemic exercises across the UK. In September 2026, the Northern Ireland Executive had not published a formal reply to the July 2026 procurement report on the Executive Office publications list (Northern Ireland Executive response, Sep 2026). The Scottish Government also had not published a document addressing the report in its online collection of inquiry responses when checked in September 2026 (Scottish Government response, Sep 2026). The Welsh Government had likewise not published a paper on its inquiry module reports page when reviewed in September 2026 (Welsh Government response, Sep 2026). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of September 2026 (Welsh Government response, Sep 2026).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 2 Oct 2026.
Government response
●Welsh Government · No response yet · 25 Sep 2026
No formal government response published. The Welsh Government had not published a response to the Module 5 report of 14 July 2026 when its page of responses to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry module reports on GOV.WALES was checked on 25 September 2026.
●Scottish Government · No response yet · 25 Sep 2026
No formal government response published. The Scottish Government had not published a response to the Module 5 report of 14 July 2026 when its collection of responses to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on gov.scot was checked on 25 September 2026.
●Northern Ireland Executive · No response yet · 25 Sep 2026
No formal government response published. The Northern Ireland Executive had not published a response to the Module 5 report of 14 July 2026 when the Executive Office's publications list was checked on 25 September 2026.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Cabinet Office has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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