There are concerns that the UK-wide Covid inquiry will not focus enough on Welsh issues.
Chair of the UK's Covid inquiry Baroness Hallett set a timetable, with preliminary hearings starting this year, and the first witnesses to be called next spring. The former High Court judge also confirmed that the inquiry will examine the response to the pandemic in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. However, this has been met with some scepticism after the first three modules were announced.
The first module will examine the resilience and preparedness of the UK for the coronavirus pandemic. The second module, which will be dealt with in parts, will look at core political and administrative governance and decision-making by each of the UK's governments. Module three will investigate the impact of Covid, and governmental and societal responses to it, on healthcare systems, including on patients, hospitals and other healthcare workers and staff.
