COVID-19 Recovery Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, May 12, 2022

Official Report 428KB pdf

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Annual Report 2021-22

Good morning and welcome to the 14th meeting in 2022 of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee. Agenda item 1 is consideration of the draft annual report for the parliamentary year from 13 May 2021 to 12 May 2022. The purpose of the report is to set out our activities over the past year.

I propose to go through the report page by page. If you have any comments on any of the paragraphs, please just raise your hand. We will start with page 1. Are members content with page one?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page two?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page three?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page four?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page five?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page six?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page seven?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page eight?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page nine?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with page 10?

Members indicated agreement.

We have reached the end of the report. Thank you very much, everybody.

I confirm that the annual report is agreed to. As today is the last day of the reporting period, the draft report will be updated to include the relevant statistics from our meeting this morning, prior to its publication tomorrow.

The committee’s next formal meeting will be on 26 May, when we will have two evidence sessions as part of our inquiry into the communication of public health information on Covid-19.

Before I close the meeting, would any member like to reflect or comment on the past year?

Although we make this comment in the annual report that we have just approved, I would like to record our grateful thanks to our committee advisers, who were of tremendous assistance to us throughout the past year. All of them were very accommodating and brought really interesting and distinct perspectives on different issues, such as public health and epidemiology, and our work as a committee would have been much harder had it not been for their input.

Thank you, Murdo; I totally agree.

As there are no further comments, I take this opportunity to thank all the clerks for their support and hard work over the past year. I also thank all the committee members for their constructive and collaborative working.

Meeting closed at 11:03.