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Ministers take openDemocracy to court to avoid handing over secret Covid review

The Department of Health and Social Care has appealed to a tribunal to avoid having to hand over the documents

By Jenna Corderoy
Ministers take openDemocracy to court to avoid handing over secret Covid review
Eat Out to Help Out, the government's scheme to encourage the public to return to high street restaurants and cafes in summer 2020. The Department of Health and Social Care has been sitting on a 'lessons learnt' review of the pandemic for 18 months | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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The government is taking openDemocracy to court to resist having to publish its secret “lessons learnt” review of the Covid pandemic.

Chiefs at the Department of Health and Social Care only last month agreed to publish the document, following an 18-month Freedom of Information battle that ended with a disclosure order by the independent watchdog.

But we were told today that the department had lodged an appeal against the order by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). It means an information tribunal is likely to be held next year.

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