A spokesperson for the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team said: "The UK Government has never relied on a single disease model to inform decision-making. As has been repeatedly stated, decision-making around lockdown was based on a consensus view of the scientific evidence, including several modelling studies by different academic groups."
"We are working with a number of legitimate academic groups and technology companies to develop, test and further document the simulation code referred to. However, we reject the partisan reviews of a few clearly ideologically motivated commentators."
On a separate issue, campaigners have raised concerns about both state sponsored tracing apps and a mooted rival jointly being researched by big tech firms Apple and Google. But Dame Wendy said the two did not compare and that, at least in the UK, she found it "really amazing that people will trust the tech firms more than they will their own government."
"It doesn't make sense to me," she said. "We'll have much more chance of scrutinising NHSx code than we will of scrutinising the code in the Apple Operating System. We should hold the government to account on this, but some people seem perfectly happy to trust Google and Apple – and they know more about us than any government ever.
"They know everything about us. They will be able to put our contact tracing data together with everything else [they know about us]. I think that's much more worrying to be honest."
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