Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the (a) outcomes and (b) lessons learned from the covid-19 inquiries in other countries.

The Department is building on the valuable lessons to be learnt from COVID-19 to inform our preparedness for future pandemics and will review the lessons learnt reports from other countries with interest and ensure any relevant lessons are factored into our pandemic preparedness plans going forward. We continue to work with other Governments to share relevant information and explore areas for collaboration, through for example the Global Health Security Initiative. Work to share lessons learnt from COVID-19 continues through engagement on both a Government to Government basis and in multilateral forums such as the G7, G20 and World Health organisation.