News

• 15 May 2023

  MPs examine whether Ofcom’s coronavirus guidance amounted to censorship

  The Pandemic Response and Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group has met to discuss the impact of Ofcom’s guidance notes to broadcasters on Coronavirus as well as broader, emerging issues with Ofcom's regulatory functions and principles.

• 24 April 2023

  MPs call for urgent action to get Covid’s lost children back into school

  The Pandemic Response and Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group is calling for an urgent focus on children’s recovery from the pandemic, prioritising social interactions and wellbeing over the coming months, after hearing from an expert panel on persistent and severe school absence.

• 20 March 2023

  MPs hear about colossal price poor communities paid for covid policies

  The Pandemic Response and Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group listened to “the critique from the left” when the authors of The Covid Consensus: the global assault on democracy and the poor spoke to the Group about how the failures of UK and global public health policy devastated the lives of poorer communities.

• 20 February 2023

  Lord Sumption advises MPs on Public Health Act reforms to protect society from future harm

  The Pandemic Response and Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group has heard from former supreme court judge, Lord Sumption, about the legality of the government’s pandemic policies.