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Government Response to Covid-19: Public Inquiry

Backbench debate and Debates on select committee report on Thursday, 22 July 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Jackie Doyle-Price. The answering members were Jack Dromey and Penny Mordaunt.
Motion that this House notes the fifth report of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Session 2019-21, A public inquiry into the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, HC 541; and calls on the Government to provide an updated response to that set out in the Committee’s fourth special report of Session 2019-21, A public inquiry into the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic: Government’s response to the Committee’s fifth report, HC 995, setting out how the Government intends to implement the Committee’s recommendations, to ensure that the administrative arrangements necessary to set up the public inquiry committed to by the Prime Minister to the House on 11 May 2021, in particular the appointment of an inquiry chair, take place in a timely manner and no later than the end of this year, and to agree: that the Government’s preferred candidate to chair the inquiry should be subject to a pre-appointment hearing by the relevant select committee for the sponsoring Government department. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
699 cc1192-1207 
Session
2021-22
Department
Cabinet Office
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Jackie Doyle-Price | 699 cc1192-3 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House notes the Fifth Report of the Public Administration and Cons...

Graham Stringer | 699 c1193 (Link to this contribution)

I commend the Committee for its thoughtful and thorough report.

I listened carefully to wha...


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Jackie Doyle-Price | 699 cc1193-4 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Clearly, where there is wilful bad behaviour it ...

Dawn Butler | 699 c1194 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Committee also be considering whether the ministerial code has been broken, either by de...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 699 cc1194-5 (Link to this contribution)

I would clearly expect any inquiry to consider such matters, but there are other ways of bringing...

Neale Hanvey | 699 cc1195-6 (Link to this contribution)

I want to focus my comments on page 1 of the report—in particular, the fact that the Government a...

Bernard Jenkin | 699 c1196 (Link to this contribution)

May I be one of the many to congratulate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, on being pinged into your pos...

Neale Hanvey | 699 c1196 (Link to this contribution)

I agree that scrutiny must be done, but if I cannot get a sensible answer from a Minister at the ...

Bernard Jenkin | 699 cc1196-7 (Link to this contribution)

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s frustration, but I have recently served on the Public Accounts ...

Tom Randall | 699 cc1197-8 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) for introducing this debate t...

Simon Baynes | 699 cc1198-9 (Link to this contribution)

The covid-19 outbreak has been one of the most significant and consequential periods of our lifet...

Jack Dromey | 699 cc1199-1200 (Link to this contribution)

I would like to start by reading out a testament from Jane Roche from Castle Vale in my constitue...

Bernard Jenkin | 699 c1200 (Link to this contribution)

I thoroughly endorse the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, which underline the importance of giving settl...

Jack Dromey | 699 cc1200-3 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member makes a good point that a sensible debate can and should take place on how the in...

Penny Mordaunt | 699 cc1202-4 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and congratulations.

I have answered many debates on the p...

Bernard Jenkin | 699 c1204 (Link to this contribution)

I am fully aware that the Government are learning lessons as quickly as possible, but they are un...

Penny Mordaunt | 699 cc1204-5 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with the thrust of what my hon. Friend says. Leaving the inquiry to one side for the mome...

Jack Dromey | 699 c1205 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Minister’s comments about the importance of engagement with the families. Will she ...

Penny Mordaunt | 699 c1205 (Link to this contribution)

I would be happy to meet anyone who has been affected. I am not the sponsoring Minister for this ...

Bernard Jenkin | 699 c1205 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend place on the record who is the sponsoring Minister?

Penny Mordaunt | 699 cc1205-6 (Link to this contribution)

At the moment the Prime Minister is the sponsoring Minister. Clearly, he will want to delegate so...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 699 c1206 (Link to this contribution)

I thank everyone who has contributed to this debate. There is a great degree of consensus: we all...

Judith Cummins | 699 c1206 (Link to this contribution)

I shall now suspend the House to enable the necessary arrangements for the next business to be ma...

Subjects
Disease control
Public appointments
Public inquiries
Coronavirus
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