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MPs give verdict on Covid laws

23 March 2022
Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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Parliament was given insufficient opportunity to scrutinise and amend emergency pandemic laws, the cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) has said
Its report, ‘Coronavirus Act 2020 two years on’, published last week, criticises the ‘take it or leave it’ nature of the sunset clause for six-monthly votes on the Act. The MPs urged the government to publish a timetable for the UK COVID-19 inquiry. PACAC chair William Wragg MP said the government must ‘allow for evidence sooner rather than later, before memories fade and key learning is lost’.
Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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