Recommendations: COVID-19 Inquiry

The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each simplify and reduce the number of structures with responsibility for …

The UK government should: abolish the lead government department model for whole-system civil emergency preparedness and resilience; and require the Cabinet Office …

The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a …

The UK government and devolved administrations should together introduce a UK-wide whole-system civil emergency strategy (which includes pandemics) to prevent each emergency …

The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable …

The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: …

For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of …

The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each produce and publish reports to their respective legislatures at least …

The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each introduce the use of red teams in the Civil Service …

The UK government should, in consultation with the devolved administrations, create a statutory independent body for whole-system civil emergency preparedness and resilience. …

The Department of Health (Northern Ireland) should reconstitute the role of the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland as an independent advisory …

The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should invite the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to nominate a small number of …

The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should develop and maintain a register of experts across the four nations of the UK who …

During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social …

The Government Office for Science (GO-Science), the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) should each develop …

The UK government should bring into force in England section 1 of the Equality Act 2010, implementing the socio-economic duty. The Northern …

The UK government should introduce legislation to place child rights impact assessments on a statutory footing in England. The Northern Ireland Executive …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be …

The Northern Ireland Executive and UK government (in consultation with the Irish government where necessary) should review the structures and delegated powers …

The UK government and devolved administrations should set out in future pandemic preparedness strategies how decision-making will work in a future pandemic. …

The UK government and the devolved administrations should each establish formal arrangements for covering the roles of Prime Minister and First Minister …

The response to a future whole-system civil emergency should be coordinated via central taskforces in each of the UK, Scotland, Wales and …

The Executive Office should amend the Ministerial Code to impose a duty of confidentiality on ministers that prohibits the disclosure of the …

The UK government and the devolved administrations should each develop action plans for how government communications will be made more accessible during …

The UK government and devolved administrations should ensure that the draft affirmative procedure is the standard process for enacting substantial and wide-ranging …

The UK government should undertake a review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to assess its potential role in managing future civil …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should develop an online portal for use in future civil emergencies, …

The UK government should invite the devolved administrations, as a matter of standard practice, to nominate relevant ministers and officials to attend …

While intergovernmental relations should be facilitated through COBR in the initial months of any future pandemic, the UK government and devolved administrations …

The UK government must ensure that there is a body (equivalent to the UK Infection Prevention and Control Cell) in place ready …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should publish guidance for the implementation of visiting restrictions in hospitals …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with employers, including health boards and trusts, to review …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive must ensure that health data and digital systems have the capability …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, in conjunction with organisations responsible for delivering services, should plan for …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with trusts and health boards to ensure that pandemic …

The UK government and devolved administrations should publish a UK-wide framework setting out ethical and operational principles to guide the allocation of …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with their respective public health agencies and healthcare employers …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, working with trusts and health boards, should establish and promote one …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, working with healthcare employers and professional bodies, should put in place …

The UK government should establish a standing pharmaceutical expert advisory panel, in consultation with the Department of Health and Social Care and …

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should maintain networks with local communities to produce targeted vaccination strategies …

Each of the four UK public health or health security agencies should work together to: maintain accurate, UK-wide insight into the state …

The UK government and devolved administrations should work together, with their respective health delivery services, to facilitate and coordinate regulatory bodies' access …

The UK government must reform the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme as soon as possible. The reform should include as a minimum: increasing …