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Recommendations: COVID-19 Inquiry

1,814 tracked recommendations 35 inquiries 19 match current filters

Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

Recommendations

19 of 1,814

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
COVID-M1.1	Simplify Emergency Preparedness Structures The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each simplify and reduce the number of structures with responsibility for …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.3	Improved Risk Assessment Approach The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.5	Pandemic Data Systems and Research The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.6	Triennial Pandemic Exercises The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.7	Publish Exercise Reports and Lessons For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.9	External Red Teams for Resilience The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each introduce the use of red teams in the Civil Service …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M2.2	Devolved Nations SAGE Attendance The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should invite the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to nominate a small number of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.3	UK-wide Expert Register The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should develop and maintain a register of experts across the four nations of the UK who …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.4	Publish Technical Advice During Emergencies During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.5	Advisory Group Terms of Appointment The Government Office for Science (GO-Science), the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) should each develop …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.6	Enact Socio-economic Duty The UK government should bring into force in England section 1 of the Equality Act 2010, implementing the socio-economic duty. The Northern …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.8	Vulnerable People Framework The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.10	Pandemic Decision-Making Framework The UK government and devolved administrations should set out in future pandemic preparedness strategies how decision-making will work in a future pandemic. …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.11	Leadership Succession Arrangements The UK government and the devolved administrations should each establish formal arrangements for covering the roles of Prime Minister and First Minister …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.12	Central Emergency Taskforces The response to a future whole-system civil emergency should be coordinated via central taskforces in each of the UK, Scotland, Wales and …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.14	Accessible Emergency Communications The UK government and the devolved administrations should each develop action plans for how government communications will be made more accessible during …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.16	Civil Contingencies Act Review The UK government should undertake a review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to assess its potential role in managing future civil …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.18	Devolved Nations COBR Attendance The UK government should invite the devolved administrations, as a matter of standard practice, to nominate relevant ministers and officials to attend …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.19	Four Nations Pandemic Structure While intergovernmental relations should be facilitated through COBR in the initial months of any future pandemic, the UK government and devolved administrations …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted