The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most significant public health challenges in recent history, placing extraordinary demands on health and care services and affecting people and communities across the United Kingdom. Many thousands lost loved ones, often in deeply distressing circumstances, and our thoughts remain with all those affected. We also continue to pay tribute to the health and social care workers across the country who served the public with extraordinary dedication, compassion, and courage in the most challenging of conditions. The Government is grateful to Baroness Hallett and the UK Covid-19 Inquiry team for their continued efforts to ensure that we learn all the necessary lessons from this crisis, and we are grateful as well to all those front-line workers and bereaved families who shared often harrowing evidence of their experiences with the Inquiry. The Module 3 report is a sobering and important account of the impact of the pandemic on healthcare systems across the UK. It recognises both the extraordinary efforts of frontline staff and the profound pressures under which they worked. It also shows how the pandemic exposed significant vulnerabilities in our health and care systems, including longstanding weaknesses in staffing, capacity and infrastructure, and it sets out the consequences that these had for patient care during a national emergency. It is vital that the lessons from those failings continue to be learned and embedded to strengthen the future resilience of our health and care systems. In many areas, that action is already underway. Our 10 Year Health Plan sets out a long-term vision to make the NHS fit for the future, delivering better, faster care, with a workforce that is more empowered, flexible and fulfilled. We are also bringing forward legislation through the Health Bill which is integral to our modernisation agenda to improve patient care, system co-ordination and accountability. Most importantly, alongside these reforms, our new Pandemic Preparedness Strategy shows how the UK will build on the specific lessons from COVID-19, and ensure we are better ready and able to deal with pandemics in the future.