Found: Baroness Hallett went around the country seeking people’s views on the terms of reference, and they

Found: Abuse, established 17/12/14, chaired by Lady Smith; Coronavirus (UK), established 12/05/21, chaired by Baroness

Found: Correspondence from Baroness Hallett, Chair, UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, re UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry

Found: Correspondence from Ben Connah, Inquiry Secretary, UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, re letter to Baroness

Found: other covid inquiries in addition to this one, including the independent UK covid-19 inquiry led by Baroness

Found: such inquiries are currently taking place, including the independent UK Covid-19 Inquiry4 led by Baroness

Found: x 1: LIST OF MEMBERS AND DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Lord Blunkett Baroness Chakrabarti Lord Dholakia Baroness

Found: I am very encouraged by the fact that the chair of the inquiry, Baroness Hallett, made her first visit

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: independent inquiry under the Inquiries Act, the conduct of the inquiry is the responsibility of its Chair, Baroness

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Hallett and the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Found: amWatch the meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: The public consultation closed on 7 April 2022 and the Chair, Baroness Hallett, has sent her recommendations

Found: No relevant interests declared Lord Dholakia No relevant interests declared Baroness

Found: The inquir y will be chaired by Baroness Hallett and draft Terms of Reference were published on 10

Found: including those who had sadly lost loved ones, had the opportunity to contribute, the inquiry™s chair, Baroness

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Letter from the Chair to Baroness Hallett, Chair of the COVID-19 public inquiry Correspondence

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws Baroness Chakrabarti Baroness Pidding Lord Dholakia Baroness Primarolo Baroness

Found: of Commons London SW1A 0AA 24 March 2022 Dear Mr Halfon, Thank you for your letter dated 15 March to Baroness

Found: The findings of the Committee may assist Baroness Hallett in her new capacity as Chair of the Covid-19

Found: 2022, the Government published the dra˙ terms of reference for the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, chaired by Baroness

Found: Correspondence from the Chair to Baroness Hallett regarding the Government's Draft Terms of Reference

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Baroness Sanderson of Welton: That is helpful, thank you. 6The Chair: Baroness Hallett wants to come

Found: amWatch the meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Robert Buckland MP: Yes indeed, Baroness Hallett.

Found: meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Lord Blunkett; Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: Hallett; Lord Hunt of Wirral; Baroness Pidding; Lord Ricketts; Baroness Primarolo; Baroness Sanderson

Found: amWatch the meetingMembers present: Baroness Hamwee (The Chair); Baroness Chakrabarti; Lord Dholakia; Baroness

Found: COMMITTEE on the HIGHGATE CEMETERY BILL Thursday 4 March 2021 (Afternoon) In Committee Room 4a PRESENT: Baroness

Found: COMMITTEE on the HIGHGATE CEMETERY BILL Thursday 4 March 2021 (Morning) In Committee Room 4a PRESENT: Baroness

Found: COMMITTEE On the HIGHGATE CEMETERY BILL Wednesday 3 March 2021 (Morning) In Committee Room 4a PRESENT: Baroness

Found: COMMITTEE on the HIGHGATE CEMETERY BILL Tuesday 2 March 2021 (Afternoon) In Committee Room 4a PRESENT: Baroness

Found: COMMITTEE On the HIGHGATE CEMETERY BILL Tuesday 2 March 2021 (Morning) In Committee Room 4a PRESENT: Baroness

Found: OFFICIAL SENSITIVE The Right Honourable Baroness Hallett DBE Baroness Hallett was c alled to

Found: You will have seen last week that an IFI report by Baroness Hallett looking at the Iraq fatality investigations

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how the needs of the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable, as distinct from the disabled, will be addressed in the UK COVID-19 Inquiry.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

The UK COVID-19 Inquiry is independent of the Government. The process, procedure and timing of the Inquiry are matters for the Chair, Baroness Hallett.

On 16th January 2023 the Chair designated the group Clinically Vulnerable Families as a Core Participant for Module 3 of the Inquiry which covers healthcare systems in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is for the Inquiry itself to provide any further detail on the important issue of how the needs of the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable will be addressed.

The Government is committed to learning from the Covid-19 Inquiry’s findings which will play a key role in informing planning and preparations for the future; it continues to work closely with the Inquiry.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government when the UK COVID-19 inquiry will complete; and whether they will put a cap on the (1) time frame, and (2) cost, permitted.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

Under the Inquiries Act 2005, the process, timing and procedure of the Inquiry are decisions for the Inquiry’s independent Chair, Baroness Hallett. The Chair is under a statutory obligation to avoid unnecessary costs in the Inquiry’s work and she has been clear that she intends to complete her work as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has sought external legal advice on disclosures to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Answered by Michael Ellis

The Covid-19 Inquiry will play a key role in learning lessons from the pandemic. The final Terms of Reference for the Inquiry were published in June. The Prime Minister accepted all of Baroness Hallett’s recommendations.

The Government does not comment on legal advice it may have received. We will meet our obligations to the Inquiry in full.

The Government is committed to working with the Inquiry to ensure that Baroness Hallett is able to conduct a thorough investigation into the preparations for and the response to the pandemic.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government is using a traffic light ranking system to assess disclosures to the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.

Answered by Michael Ellis

The Covid-19 Inquiry will play a key role in learning lessons from the pandemic. The final Terms of Reference for the Inquiry were published in June. The Prime Minister accepted all of Baroness Hallett’s recommendations.

The Government does not comment on legal advice it may have received. We will meet our obligations to the Inquiry in full.

The Government is committed to working with the Inquiry to ensure that Baroness Hallett is able to conduct a thorough investigation into the preparations for and the response to the pandemic.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that the scope of the Covid-19 Inquiry includes an assessment of the potential impact on people bereaved by covid-19 of the findings of the Cabinet Office report entitled Findings of Second Permanent Secretary's investigation into alleged gatherings on Government premises during covid restrictions.

Answered by Michael Ellis

In March, the Prime Minister published the draft terms of reference for the public inquiry into COVID-19. The Prime Minister asked Baroness Hallett - the inquiry’s chair - to consult publicly on the draft and to make proposals for further refinements. Following that consultation, Baroness Hallett has now published her recommendations. In accordance with the terms of the Inquiries Act, the Government will now consider her proposals fully, consult the devolved administrations, and will publish the inquiry's final terms of reference in due course.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to require the proposed covid-19 inquiry to collect evidence on the impact of breaches of covid-19 restrictions at 10 Downing Street on people who were bereaved during covid-19.

Answered by Michael Ellis

In March, the Prime Minister published the draft terms of reference for the public inquiry into COVID-19. The Prime Minister asked Baroness Hallett - the inquiry’s chair - to consult publicly on the draft and to make proposals for further refinements. Following that consultation, Baroness Hallett has now published her recommendations. In accordance with the terms of the Inquiries Act, the Government will now consider her proposals fully, consult the devolved administrations, and will publish the inquiry's final terms of reference in due course.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has paid in fees to all counsel to public inquiries in each of the last ten years.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.

Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.

Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the process is for the selection of counsel for the forthcoming public inquiry into the covid-19 pandemic.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.

Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.

Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will confirm the process by which counsel to public inquiries are selected.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Under the Inquiries Rules 2006, the appointment of Counsel to the Inquiry is a matter for an inquiry’s independent chair.

Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, has appointed Hugo Keith QC as Lead Counsel to the Inquiry.

Information as to fees paid to inquiry counsel is not held centrally. Statutory inquiries publish information on their expenditure on their own independent websites.

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It's vital that we consider a wide range of views within the Covid inquiry - we shouldn't allow it to be blind to areas of important investigation. That's why I signed this letter to the Chairman of the Covid Inquiry Baroness Hallett ✒️ https://t.co/lN2V2dRRCv

Today, Baroness Hallett recommended that the Terms of Reference for the #COVID19 Public Inquiry includes children and mental health. I strongly welcome this recommendation and am grateful to Baroness Hallett for listening to the concerns of @CommonsEd ?? https://t.co/smeoV3h6B3

? Pleased to see that the @covidinquiryuk terms of reference have been sharpened, which reflects the suggestions made by @SteveBakerHW & I. ✍️ You can read the original letter Steve & I sent to the Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, here: https://t.co/DsXPrRmf5g https://t.co/SokcRyAiBz

"The question which Baroness Hallett might be asking is whether or not that has been done, because it has been obvious for some time that there would be an public inquiry, so such instruction could’ve been issued quite a long time ago." 2/

??‍♂️ The Covid Recovery Group played our part in scrutinising Govt decision-making throughout the pandemic, unlike Labour ✍️ @SteveBakerHW & I have written to the Chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Hallett ✅ We welcome the breadth of the inquiry’s terms of reference ? https://t.co/gMgeoYT7U8

The draft Covid Inquiry terms of reference, astonishingly, fails to mention children. Our @HouseofCommons @CommonsEd last week wrote to Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry, in order to correct this ommission ? https://t.co/AaLQPxo3J5

The draft terms of reference for the Official Covid inquiry doesn't even mention children. Sadly symbolic of much that went wrong for young people during pandemic. Given @UKHouseofLords #Covid_19 Cttee recommendations, perhaps Baroness Hallett, Chair of the inquiry will rethink? https://t.co/4r2EAcem6C

Found: Yesterday, Baroness Hallett published her report from the first module of the UK covid-19 inquiry, which

Found: The Right Honourable Baroness Hallett DBE, QC and a Recorder of the Crown Court.

Found: On 21 July 2022, Baroness Hallett, the Inquiry Chair, made an opening statement and launched the Inquiry

Found: On 21 July 2022, Baroness Hallett, the Inquiry Chair, made an opening statement and launched the Inquiry

Found: The opening statement was made by Baroness Hallett on 21 July 2022, which saw the launch of Module 1

Found: UK COVID Public Inquiry The UK COVID Public Inquiry was launched on 21 July 2022 by Baroness Hallett

Found: The UK Covid -19 Inquiry has been set up, chaired by Baroness Hallett, to examine the UK’s response to

Found: Baroness Hallett was app ointed Chair in December 2021 a nd in Sp ring 2022 consulted the pu blic on

Found: reference follows a full and extensive public consultation process led by the inquiry’s independent Chair - Baroness

Found: The inquir y will be chaired by Baroness Hallett and draft Terms of Reference were published on 10

Found: The inquir y will be chaired by Baroness Hallett and draft Terms of Reference were published on 10

Found: Once the terms of reference for the public inquiry have been published in draft, Baroness Hallett, the

Found: Report and Accounts 2023-24 16 Case Study: UK Covid-19 Inquiry The UK Covid-19 Inquiry chaired by Baroness

Found: The Right Honourable Baroness Hallett DBE, QC and a Recorder of the Crown Court.

Found: Also, regarding the public Inquiry into Covid -19 led by the Noble Baroness Hallett, we have always

Found: investigation is to take into account the investigations which have already been conducted by the Coroner ( Baroness

Found: ’ s Director of Inquiry Set-up has now written to me to ask that I reiterate that message following Baroness

Found: The Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, will consider all evidence submitted in respect of the United Kingdom

Found: The Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, will consider all evidence submitted in respect of the United Kingdom

Found: The UK Government has also set up an inquiry, chaired by Chair, Baroness Hallett, under the Inquiries

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with people living with vaccine injury, and whether it will consider meeting with representatives of such people in the coming months.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

It is important to acknowledge that vaccines are medicines and like all medicines they can have side effects and, on rare occasions, cause injury. Thankfully, most side effects are mild and short lived, but the Scottish Government recognises that some are not.

The Scottish Government has corresponded with the Scottish Vaccine Injury Group on several occasions, and has routinely signposted members of the public to the vaccine damage payment scheme when they have raised issues of vaccine–related injury. The safety of medicines, including vaccines, and the subject matter of the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme are matters which are reserved to the UK Government, therefore we are unable to comment on individual cases.

The Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry is currently underway and the forthcoming Module 4 of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry on Vaccines and Therapeutics will consider vaccine safety and other aspects, such as potential reforms to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

The Scottish Vaccine Injury Group is a core participant of both the UK and Scottish Inquiries and as such has a central role. Due to the group’s involvement with the Inquiries, it would not be appropriate for Ministers to meet with them at this stage.

I advised through recent correspondence with the Scottish Vaccine Injury Group that I would be open to meeting with representatives of the group once Module 4 of the UK Inquiry has concluded, and after Baroness Hallett has issued my recommendations. This would facilitate a full and open discussion to take place between both parties, where recommendations could be discussed, especially if there were any the group felt weren’t full addressed as part of the inquiry.