The report said: "While the response to the pandemic has provided new learning from both what has worked well and what has not worked well, it has also laid bare existing fault lines within society, such as the risk of widening inequalities, and within public service delivery and government itself."
The National Audit Office also urged ministers to come up with ideas to prevent (to which I would add here: "even greater" seeing as already mentioned as an existing fault line) widening inequality caused by the pandemic.
The NAO warned that the hundreds of billions of pounds spent in response to the pandemic so far may have an impact on the longer-term sustainability of the public finances.
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