Inquiry opens Module 7 public hearings next week and confirms final Module 10 hearings dates for early-2026

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry begins its latest public hearings next week, the third of six sets of hearings planned for 2025. It has also confirmed dates for its final public hearings, Module 10, in February 2026. 

Next week (Monday 12 May), the Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, will open hearings for the Inquiry’s seventh investigation (Module 7) examining the different test, trace and isolate programmes across the four nations of the UK. The hearings will be held at Dorland House in Paddington and are open to the public to attend.

The witness timetable for the first week of Module 7 public hearings can be viewed on our website.

The Inquiry is divided into different investigations – or ‘Modules’ – which will examine different parts of the UK’s preparedness for and response to the pandemic and its impact.

The Inquiry is now able to confirm that its Module 10 hearings will take place from Monday 16 February to Thursday 5 March 2026. These will be the final weeks of public hearings held by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

The Inquiry’s first report, Module 1 ‘Resilience and preparedness’, was published in July 2024. Its second report – investigating political decision-making across all four governments of the UK and covering the Inquiry’s Module 2 hearings as well as 2A, 2B and 2C hearings conducted in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast respectively – is scheduled to be published in Autumn 2025. Subsequent reports will continue to be published following the M10 hearings. 

The updated, complete schedule of forthcoming hearings is as follows: