Timeline
Key dates in the inquiry's progress, assembled from its recorded milestones and hearing phases.
Hearing-phase dates are taken from the published hearing days; some earlier milestone dates are approximate where the inquiry has not published an exact date.
Milestones & hearing phases
Milestone
Hearing phase
Reports & costs
Still to come
Inquiry Announced
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a Scottish public inquiry into COVID-19.
Evidential hearings
120 sitting days
Procedural / preliminary hearing
3 sitting days
Let's Be Heard interim report published
The inquiry published the first report of its Let's Be Heard listening project, sharing what respondents said about their experiences, the impacts on them and the lessons they wanted learned.
Voices of Prisoners case study published
A Let's Be Heard case study setting out what prisoners shared about their experiences of the pandemic in Scotland.
Voices of Children and Young People case study published
A Let's Be Heard case study setting out what children and young people shared about their experiences of the pandemic in Scotland.
Narrative Record on health and social care published
The inquiry published a narrative record of the health and social care impact hearings, with an executive summary alongside it. The record sets out the evidence heard and contains no findings of fact or recommendations.
Let's Be Heard volume 1 published
The first of the Let's Be Heard volumes, on financial and welfare support, drew on the experiences of over 12,500 contributors to the listening project.
Final report (to be confirmed)
The inquiry has not yet reported.