UK Covid inquiry: government accused of giving ‘very little’ advance thought to lockdown and being too focused on flu – as it happened
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Hallett says the concerns of the bereaved will always be at the heart of the inquiry". She says:
I have promised many times that those who suffered hardship and loss are and will always be at the heart of the inquiry. And I have done my very best within the constraints upon me of time, resources and my terms of reference to fulfil that promise.
I know that there are those who feel that the inquiry has not sufficiently recognised their loss or listened to them in the way that they feel appropriate but I hope that they will better understand, as the inquiry progresses, the very difficult balance I have had to strike.
My plan, as people now know, is to publish reports as we go along. So that when the hearings for this module finish, work will begin on preparing the report for this module. When that report is ready, it will be published. In the meantime, the other module teams and I will be working on the next modules.
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