COVID-19 Enquiry

In news that comes as a surprise to nobody with a modicum of pecuniary sense is news that the COVID-19 enquiry is considerably more costly than previously thought.

The public inquiry into the Covid pandemic has cost the government more than £100m to respond to so far, the BBC has learnt. This is on top of the £192m spent by the inquiry itself.

Paul Johnson, former IFS director published Spending £200m on the Covid inquiry is symbolic of Britain’s failure regarding the economic aspects and he makes valid points and aptly describes the exercise as “A bureaucratic, lawyer-driven, backwards-looking, largely pointless exercise put in place for reasons that already seem lost in the mists of time but with an unstoppable momentum of its own.”

He concludes with “_There is much to learn about both the economics and the political economy. But the big lessons are straightforward enough. They should not take years of work or vast sums of money to uncover. _”

It feels that the executive summary of the whole affair will devolve into something like ‘lessons were learnt’ and that there will be no real accountability.