COVID Inquiries Response Engagement Group (CIREG)
Overview
This group was established in November 2025 to support our work in responding to recommendations from the UK COVID-19 Inquiry’s Module 2 report.
Members include representatives of groups disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and some of those furthest from government decision-making, so that those views can be taken into account in developing our response.
This group is chaired by the Deputy First Minister and its first official meeting took place on 10 December 2025.
Members
- Adam Stachura, Age Scotland
- Francesca Malila, CEMVO Scotland
- Dr Pauline Nolan, Inclusion Scotland
- Mark Kelvin, LGBT Health and Wellbeing
- Suzanne Munday, Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP)
- Maggie Waterton, Scottish Covid Bereaved
- Linda Somerville (Deputy General Secretary), Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC)
- Peter Kelly, The Poverty Alliance
- Juliet Swann, Transparency International (UK)