BAHA-54 Accepted

MATT 7 Take-up Recording

Baha Mousa Inquiry · The Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry - Volume III · Issued 8 September 2011 · Addressed to: Ministry of Defence

Source — verbatim from the inquiry

Inquiry recommendation

There needs to be better recording of the take-up of MATT 7 (and equivalent training) to avoid the need to rely upon Reception Staging and Onward Integration (RSOI) training in CPErS handling.

Baha Mousa Inquiry, The Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry - Volume III · 8 Sep 2011 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:

- The Defence Secretary stated on 8 September 2011 that the government accepted this recommendation and stated that better systems for recording MATT 7 completion had been implemented to avoid reliance on Reception Staging and Onward Integration training (Government Response to the Baha Mousa Inquiry, Ministry of Defence, September 2011).
- Training record systems are internal military documents not publicly available for independent verification.

Response — verbatim from government

Ministry of Defence

Accepted. Better systems for recording MATT 7 completion have been implemented.

Ministry of Defence · 8 Sep 2011 Written response →

Evidence trail — what's actually happened since

No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.

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