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CAMPAIGNERS are demanding to know if the government plans to hold back evidence from the public inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It comes after international news agency Bloomberg reported that the government “is seeking to withhold key information after receiving legal advice that ministers could face extensive claims for damages from families who lost loved ones during Covid-19.”
Campaign group the Good Law Project has written to the Cabinet Office to ask if the report is true.
Project director Jo Maugham said: “The inquiry is intended to provide answers to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost loved ones during the pandemic.
“It is also intended to allow the government to reflect on the failures in its response and ensure that they are never again repeated.
“It would be quite wrong for the government to set up the inquiry in order to fulfil those objectives, and then fatally undermine its ability to do so.”
The Cabinet Office said: “It is absolutely wrong to suggest that the government has attempted to suppress information about the handling of the pandemic.”
