Massive costs before single witness called

The Covid-19 Inquiry has already cost more than £116 million, after dozens of contracts were signed by the inquiry itself and by government departments, primarily for IT and legal support.

The contracts include:

£25.5m Epiq Systems (IT support) £20.45m

Anexsys (IT support)

£11.8m Legastat (IT support) £10.54m TLT LLP (legal support)

£9.8m Burges Salmon (legal support) £9.17m Pinset Masons (legal support) £6.94m Radio Technical Services Ltd (audio visual services) £5m

DWF (legal advice)

£4.5m

DAC Beachcroft LLP (legal support)

£3.78m

DLA Piper (legal support) £3.6m Gowling WLG (legal services support) £1.169m Atlaw Ediscovery Ltd (IT services)

£1m

Sharpe Pritchard LLP (legal services)