Week 1
12 June 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Date | Monday 12 June | Tuesday 13 June | Wednesday 14 June | Thursday 15 June | Friday 16 June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |
| Morning | Non-sitting day | Opening Statements Counsel to the Inquiry Core Participants |
Opening Statements Core Participants |
Prof. David Heymann (Expert) | Prof. Sir Michael Marmot and Prof. Clare Bambra (Experts) |
| Afternoon | Non-sitting day | Opening Statements Core Participants |
Prof. Jimmy Whitworth and Dr. Charlotte Hammer (Experts) | Bruce Mann and Prof. David Alexander (Experts) | Katharine Hammond (Former Director of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the Cabinet Office) |
Week 2
19 June 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Date | Monday 19 June | Tuesday 20 June | Wednesday 21 June | Thursday 22 June | Friday 23 June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 11:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |
| Morning | David Cameron (Former Prime Minister 2010-2016) Sir Chris Wormald (Permanent Secretary of DHSC) |
Oliver Letwin (Former Minister for Government Policy between 2010 and 2016 and former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 2014 and 2016) George Osborne (Former Chancellor 2010-2016) |
Sir Mark Walport (Director of the Wellcome Trust from 2003–2013. Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) April 2013 to September 2017) Oliver Dowden (Current Deputy PM and former Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office 2018-2019 and Cabinet Minister 2019-2020) |
Roger Hargreaves (Current Director of the COBR Unit) Sir Chris Whitty (Current CMO since 2019) |
Non-sitting day |
| Afternoon | Clara Swinson (Director-General in DHSC & Chair of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Programme (PIPP) Board) |
Dame Sally Davies (Former CMO 2010-2019) | Jeremy Hunt MP (Former Sec of State for Health 2012-2018 and current Chancellor) | Sir Patrick Vallance (Former CSA April 2018 to March 2023) Dr. Jim McMenamin (Former Interim Clinical Director and strategic lead for the Respiratory Viral team within Health Protection Scotland and now Head of Infections Service at Public Health Scotland) |
Non-sitting day |
Week 3
26 June 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Monday 26 June | Tuesday 27 June | Wednesday 28 June | Thursday 29 June | Friday 30 June | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 10:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |
| Morning | Emma Reed (Director of Emergency Preparedness and Health Protection at DHSC) Rosemary Gallagher MBE (Professional Lead Infection Prevention and Control at Royal College of Nursing) |
Matt Hancock MP (Former Minister for Health 2018-2021) | Gillian Russell (Director for Safer Communities in Scottish Government 2015-2020 and current Director of Health Workforce) Caroline Lamb (Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director-General Health and Social Care) |
Sir Jeremy Farrar attending remotely (Former Director of the Wellcome Trust 2013-2023 and current CSA for WHO) Nicola Sturgeon (Former FM Scotland 2014-2023 and former Deputy FM Scotland 2007-2014) |
Non-sitting day |
| Afternoon | Dame Jenny Harries (Chief Exec of UKHSA and former Deputy CMO 2019-2021) | Duncan Selbie attending remotely (Former Chief Exec of Public Health England 2013-2020) | Jeanne Freeman attending remotely (Former Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport – Scottish Government 2018-2021) | John Swinney (Former Deputy FM Scotland 2014-2023) Catherine Frances (Director General for Local Government, Resilience and Communities in DLUHC) |
Non-sitting day |
Week 4
3 July 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Monday 3 July | Tuesday 4 July | Wednesday 5 July | Thursday 6 July | Friday 7 July | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 2:00 pm | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |
| Morning | Not sitting | Dr. Andrew Goodall (Current Permanent Secretary to Welsh Government and former Director General for Health and Social Services and Chief Executive of NHS Wales since 2014) Dr. Quentin Sandifer (Consultant Adviser on Pandemic and International Health at Public Health Wales) Vaughan Gething (Former Minister for Health and Social Services Welsh Government 2016-2021 and former deputy Deputy Minister for Health 2014-2016) |
Dr. Catherine Calderwood attending remotely (Former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland 2015-2020) Prof. Jim McManus (President of the Association of Directors of Public Health) Kevin Fenton (President of the UK Faculty of Public Health) |
Dr. Denis McMahon (Permanent Secretary of the Executive Office Northern Ireland) Reg Kilpatrick (Director of Local Government Department 2011-2020 and now Director General Covid Recovery and Local Government in Welsh Government) |
Non-sitting day |
| Afternoon | Sir Frank Atherton (Current CMO for Wales since 2014) Dr. Andrew Goodall (Current Permanent Secretary to Welsh Government and former Director General for Health and Social Services and Chief Executive of NHS Wales since 2014) |
Mark Drakeford (First Minister of Wales since 2018) | Prof. Mark Woolhouse (Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh) | Robin Swann (Former Minister of Health Northern Ireland between 2020-2022) | Non-sitting day |
Week 5
10 July 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Monday 10 July | Tuesday 11 July | Wednesday 12 July | Thursday 13 July | Friday 14 July | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 10:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | |
| Morning | Dr. Claas Kirchhelle (Expert) | Baroness Foster (Former First Minister of Northern Ireland 2020-2021) | Michelle O’Neill (Former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland between 2020-2022 and Former Minister of Health 2016-2017) | Marcus Bell (Director of the Government Equality Hub) Melanie Field (Chief Strategy and Policy Officer of the Equality and Human Rights Commission) Nigel Edwards (Chief Executive of Nuffield Trust) Dr. Richard Horton (Editor in Chief of the Lancet, a medical journal and author) |
Non-sitting day |
| Afternoon | Prof. Sir Michael McBride (Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland since 2006) | Richard Pengelly (Former Permanent Secretary for Department of Health, Northern Ireland 2014-2022) | Mark Lloyd (Chief Executive of LGA), Chris Llewellyn (Chief Executive of WLGA) & Alison Allen (Chief Executive of NILGA) Aidan Dawson (Chief Executive of Public Health Agency Northern Ireland) |
Michael Gove (Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2019-2021 and DEFRA Secretary of State 2017-2019) | Non-sitting day |
Week 6
17 July 2023
Please note timings are provisional and subject to change.
| Monday 17 July | Tuesday 18 July | Wednesday 19 July | Thursday 20 July | Friday 21 July | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 10:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | ||
| Morning | Kate Bell (Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress) Gerry Murphy (Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions) |
Matt Fowler (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice) Jane Morrison attending remotely (Scottish Covid Bereaved) Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru) Brenda Doherty (Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice) |
Closing Statements Core Participants |
Non-sitting day | Non-sitting day |
| Afternoon | Prof. Philip Banfield (Chair of the British Medical Association’s UK council) Dr. Jennifer Dixon (Chief Executive of Health Foundation) Michael Adamson (Chief Executive of British Red Cross) |
Closing Statements Core Participants |
Closing Statements Core Participants |
Non-sitting day | Non-sitting day |