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Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

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35 inquiries with tracked recs

Inquiry	Recs	Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry	290	281
Manchester Arena Inquiry	169	169
IICSA	107	96
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry	106	—
Grenfell Tower Inquiry	104	104
Infected Blood Inquiry	103	102
Hyponatraemia Inquiry	96	96
Fuller Inquiry	92	71
Leveson Inquiry	92	77
Vale of Leven Inquiry	75	75
Baha Mousa Inquiry	73	72
Southport Inquiry	67	—
RHI Inquiry	45	44
COVID-19 Inquiry	44	24
Morecambe Bay Investigation	44	44
Brook House Inquiry	33	28
Bichard Inquiry	31	31
Angiolini Inquiry	30	29
Post Office Horizon Inquiry	27	25
Jermaine Baker Inquiry	26	22
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry	24	21
Daniel Morgan Panel	23	21
Cranston Inquiry	18	—
Paterson Inquiry	17	15
HIA Inquiry	12	12
Scottish Hospitals Inquiry	11	11
Anthony Grainger Inquiry	9	9
Al-Sweady Inquiry	9	9
Hillsborough Panel	9	5
Fingerprint Inquiry	9	9
ICL Inquiry	7	6
Litvinenko Inquiry	5	5
Azelle Rodney Inquiry	3	3
Billy Wright Inquiry	3	3
Penrose Inquiry	1	1

Recommendations

1,417 of 1,814 · page 14 of 29

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
L72	Exemplary Damages for Media Torts Exemplary damages (whether so described or renamed as punitive damages) should be available for actions for breach of privacy, breach of confidence …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L73	Civil Procedure Rules on Costs The Civil Procedure Rules should be amended to require the court, when considering the appropriate order for costs at the conclusion of …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Not Accepted
L74	Qualified One Way Costs Shifting In the absence of the provision of an approved mechanism for dispute resolution, available through an independent regulator without cost to the …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Not Accepted
L75	Discontinue Off-the-record Term The term 'off-the-record briefing' should be discontinued. The term 'non-reportable briefing' should be used to cover a background briefing which is not …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L76	ACPO Media Contact Recording It should be mandatory for ACPO rank officers to record all of their contact with the media, and for that record to …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L77	Police Media Contact Rule The simple rule included within the 'Interim ACPO Guidance for Relationships with the Media' should be adopted as good practice. This is: …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L78	PNC Access Auditing The Police Service should re-examine the rigour of the auditing process and the frequency of the conduct of audits in relation to …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L79	ACPO Guidance on Hospitality The recent ACPO Guidance should more specifically spell out the dangers of consuming alcohol in a setting of casual hospitality (without necessarily …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L80	ACPO Post-employment Restrictions Consideration should be given to the terms upon which ACPO rank officers are appointed and, in particular, whether these terms should include …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L81	Enhanced Whistleblower Protection An enhanced system for protection of whistleblowers and for providing assistance for the Police Service on general ethical issues should at least …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L82	Party Policy on Press Relations As a first step, political leaders should reflect constructively on the merits of publishing on behalf of their party a statement setting …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L83	Disclosure of Media Contacts Party Leaders, Ministers and Front Bench Opposition spokesmen should consider publishing: (a) the simple fact of long term relationships with media proprietors, …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L84	Immediate Transparency Need The suggestions that I have made in the direction of greater transparency about meetings and contacts should be considered not just as …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L85	Plurality Focus on News The particular public policy goals of ensuring that citizens are informed and preventing too much influence in any one pair of hands …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L86	Include Online in Plurality Online publication should be included in any market assessment for consideration of plurality.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L87	Plurality Measurement Framework Ofcom and the Government should work, with the industry, on the measurement framework, in order to achieve as great a measure of …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L88	Plurality Thresholds Lower Than Competition The levels of influence that would give rise to concerns in relation to plurality must be lower, and probably considerably lower, than …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L89	Full Menu of Plurality Remedies Ofcom has presented the Inquiry and the Government with a full menu of potential remedies, and it has not been argued or …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L90	Periodic Plurality Reviews The Government should consider whether periodic plurality reviews or an extension to the public interest test within the markets regime in competition …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L91	Media Merger Referral Consultation Before making a decision to refer a media merger to the competition authorities on public interest grounds, the Secretary of State should …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L92	Secretary of State Media Merger Decisions The Secretary of State should remain responsible for public interest decisions in relation to media mergers. The Secretary of State should be …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
F1	Implementing the recommendations It is recommended that: All commissioning, service provision regulatory and ancillary organisations in healthcare should consider the findings and recommendations of this …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F2	Putting the patient first The NHS and all who work for it must adopt and demonstrate a shared culture in which the patient is the priority …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F3	Clarity of values and principles The NHS Constitution should be the first reference point for all NHS patients and staff and should set out the system's common …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F4	Clarity of values and principles The core values expressed in the NHS Constitution should be given priority of place and the overriding value should be that patients …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F5	Clarity of values and principles In reaching out to patients, consideration should be given to including expectations in the NHS Constitution that: Staff put patients before themselves; …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F6	Clarity of values and principles The handbook to the NHS Constitution should be revised to include a much more prominent reference to the NHS values and their …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F7	Clarity of values and principles All NHS staff should be required to enter into an express commitment to abide by the NHS values and the Constitution, both …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F8	Clarity of values and principles Contractors providing outsourced services should also be required to abide by these requirements and to ensure that staff employed by them for …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F9	Fundamental standards of behaviour The NHS Constitution should include reference to all the relevant professional and managerial codes by which NHS staff are bound, including the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F10	Fundamental standards of behaviour The NHS Constitution should incorporate an expectation that staff will follow guidance and comply with standards relevant to their work, such as …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F11	Fundamental standards of behaviour Healthcare professionals should be prepared to contribute to the development of, and comply with, standard procedures in the areas in which they …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F12	Fundamental standards of behaviour Reporting of incidents of concern relevant to patient safety, compliance with fundamental standards or some higher requirement of the employer needs to …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F13	The nature of standards Standards should be divided into: Fundamental standards of minimum safety and quality – in respect of which non-compliance should not be tolerated. …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F14	The nature of standards In addition to the fundamental standards of service, the regulations should include generic requirements for a governance system designed to ensure compliance …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F15	The nature of standards All the required elements of governance should be brought together into one comprehensive standard. This should require not only evidence of a …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F16	Responsibility for setting standards The Government, through regulation, but after so far as possible achieving consensus between the public and professional representatives, should provide for the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F17	Responsibility for setting standards The NHS Commissioning Board together with Clinical Commissioning Groups should devise enhanced quality standards designed to drive improvement in the health service. …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F18	Responsibility for setting standards It is essential that professional bodies in which doctors and nurses have confidence are fully involved in the formulation of standards and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F19	Gaps between the understood functions of separate regulators There should be a single regulator dealing both with corporate governance, financial competence, viability and compliance with patient safety and quality standards …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Not Accepted
F20	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance The Care Quality Commission should be responsible for policing the fundamental standards, through the development of its core outcomes, by specifying the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F21	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance The regulator should have a duty to monitor the accuracy of information disseminated by providers and commissioners on compliance with standards and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F22	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should be commissioned to formulate standard procedures and practice designed to provide the practical …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F23	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance The measures formulated by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should include measures not only of clinical outcomes, but of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F24	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance Compliance with regulatory fundamental standards must be capable so far as possible of being assessed by measures which are understood and accepted …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F25	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance It should be considered the duty of all specialty professional bodies, ideally together with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F26	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance In policing compliance with standards, direct observation of practice, direct interaction with patients, carers and staff, and audit of records should take …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F27	Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance The healthcare systems regulator should promote effective enforcement by: use of a low threshold of suspicion; no tolerance of non-compliance with fundamental …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F28	Sanctions and interventions for non-compliance Zero tolerance: A service incapable of meeting fundamental standards should not be permitted to continue. Breach should result in regulatory consequences attributable …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F29	Sanctions and interventions for non-compliance It should be an offence for death or serious injury to be caused to a patient by a breach of these regulatory …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted

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