Covid-19 Pandemic: Commemoration

Lord Hannay of Chiswick Excerpts

Thursday 13th November 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

I am happy to meet the noble Lord to discuss this issue on a national level. I appreciate that he was asking about public health officials at a local level, but we have been conducting a pandemic preparedness exercise at a national level: Exercise Pegasus. Clearly, a huge amount is delivered locally, but I am happy to set up a meeting for the noble Lord with either me or the relevant officials, so that he gets that level of detail that I unfortunately do not have before me today.

[Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB)]

My Lords, will the Minister say what the Government’s plans are for the World Health Organization’s pandemic convention, which is moving ahead all too slowly in the United Nations machinery? Do the Government have a firm objective for that convention to be agreed and signed up to in 2026?

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

I will write to the noble Lord on his important point.