Source · Select Committees · Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Recommendation 12
12
Paragraph: 46
The Government is right to recognise the importance of providing families that seek it with...
Conclusion
The Government is right to recognise the importance of providing families that seek it with as much information as possible about the death of a loved one. Many families seek not redress, but merely to be treated with respect and to obtain information. Unfortunately, the WMS did not explain the operation of the proposed information recovery mechanism and the intervening period of radio silence has been thoroughly unhelpful.
Paragraph Reference:
46
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government welcomes the conclusions of the Committee that it “is right to recognise the importance of providing families that seek it with as much information as possible about the death of a loved one” and its observation that “many families seek not redress, but merely to be treated with respect and to obtain information”.1 The Government has always been clear we want to see information recovery at the heart of any new legacy system.