UK Covid-19 inquiry: The resilience and preparedness of the United Kingdom

This inquiry examines the state of the UK's central structures and procedures for pandemic emergency preparedness, resilience and response. The primary duty of the state is to protect its citizens from harm. It is, therefore, the state's duty to ensure that the UK is as properly prepared to meet threats from a lethal disease as it is from a hostile force.

A summary of the recommendations from the inquiry are as follows:

• A radical simplification of the civil emergency preparedness and resilience systems. This includes rationalising and streamlining the current bureaucracy and providing better and simpler Ministerial and official structures and leadership
• A new approach to risk assessment that provides for a better and more comprehensive evaluation of a wider range of actual risks
• A new UK-wide approach to the development of strategy, which learns lessons from the past and from regular civil emergency exercises, and takes proper account of existing inequalities and vulnerabilities
• Better systems of data collection and sharing in advance of future pandemics, and the commissioning of a wider range of research projects