Thread by @alanbarnard1

Something seems a bit off to me about the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. I think many things are being covered up.

I seek to explain one of them below…

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The Inquiry must have the minutes from all IPC Cell meetings. 13 sets of minutes have been released to the public (and they had to be dragged out by FoI requests against strong resistance from the authorities). Even the Information Commissioner’s Office had to get involved.

There must have been more than 13 meetings of the IPC Cell.

I asked ChatGPT.

The response was that there would have been a maximum of 237 meetings, a minimum of 105, with a best estimate of 171 meetings.

So where are the other meeting minutes?

Why are the other IPC Cell meeting minutes being kept secret?

SAGE, NERVTAG, ACDP and others all openly published their minutes in a relatively timely manner. Yet the secretive IPC Cell failed to publish any of their own volition, and still haven’t.

If the UK Covid-19 Inquiry does indeed have all the minutes, what is being covered up?

Some minutes were released to core participants at very short notice before the oral evidence of Dr Lisa Ritchie.

This late release compromised the ability of core participants properly to question that witness about the IPC guidance.

This was clearly unfair, as was the Chair’s refusal to recall Ritchie at a later date to face such questions.

So what is going on?

The Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, must conduct the Inquiry in compliance with duties imposed on her by section 17(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005: ‘In making any decision as to the procedure or conduct of an inquiry, the chairman must act with fairness’.

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/12/…

Is Baroness Hallett conducting the Inquiry fairly, according to those duties?

And why haven't the IPC Cell meeting minutes been released?

What is being covered up?