Update: Inquiry to publish first report, Module 1 ‘Resilience and preparedness’, in July

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry will publish its first report and recommendations following its investigation into the UK’s ‘Resilience and preparedness (Module 1)’ for the pandemic on Thursday 18 July 2024.

The report will be on the Inquiry website at midday on 18 July. The Chair of the Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, will present her recommendations in a live streamed statement on the Inquiry’s YouTube channel soon after.

The first investigation’s public hearings, which were held across six weeks in June and July 2023, heard oral evidence from witnesses including senior politicians as well as scientists, experts and civil servants.

The Inquiry is split into different investigations – or ‘Modules’ – which will examine different parts of the UK’s preparedness for and response to the pandemic and its impact. So far, eight investigations are underway, with plans for Modules 8 and 9 announced in May 2024.

A full list of the topics that the Inquiry will investigate can be found in our Terms of Reference – more information about the Inquiry here:

The Chair aims to finish public hearings in 2026. The next scheduled public hearings are Module 3 ‘Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the four nations of the UK’ which will run for 10 weeks in London from Monday 9 September to Thursday 28 November 2024, with a two-week break from Monday 14 October to Friday 25 October.

The Inquiry’s current schedule of hearings is as follows: