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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nina Lloyd

Treasury had no estimated cost of lockdown, says former chief economic adviser

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The Treasury had “no estimated cost of a lockdown”, the Government’s former chief economic adviser has told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Clare Lombardelli suggested there was no way to determine the economic impact of national restrictions going into the pandemic, but insisted some “useful” modelling was carried out.

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