Sutton gave evidence at an inquiry investigating the leak of the virus from hotel quarantine into the community. He said that it was "astounding" that he was excluded from the process to plan the hotel quarantine system and said he had no knowledge that private security were being used in the system until reading about it in the media in May 2020. The inquiry found that the leak into the community was caused by poorly trained private security guards and poor cleaning and training procedures, but was unable to determine who commissioned the use of private security.
