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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

928 of 1,814 · page 18 of 19

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
R20	Standards for police vetting checks HMIC should develop, with ACPO and the CRB, the standards to be observed by police forces in carrying out vetting checks. These …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R21	Enhanced Disclosure for school staff All posts, including those in schools, that involve working with children, and vulnerable adults, should be subject to the Enhanced Disclosure regime.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R22	Identity checking responsibilities The Registered Bodies' precise responsibilities for checking identities need to be clarified urgently.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R23	Database access for identity verification Registered Bodies, or the CRB, should be able to check passports and driving licences presented as proof of identity against the Passport …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R24	Photograph requirement for identity documents There should be an expectation that documents produced to confirm identity should, wherever possible, include a photograph.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R25	Fingerprints for identity verification Fingerprints should be used as a means of verifying identity.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R26	Address verification guidance Guidance should be issued to Registered Bodies on how to verify that applicants have given a full and accurate account of their …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R27	Information verification confirmation Registered Bodies should be required to confirm that they have checked the information on the 'Police Check Form' in accordance with CRB …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R28	Broader consent on Police Check Form The consents that applicants currently give on the 'Police Check Form' should be sufficiently broad to enable the requisite checks to be …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R29	Incomplete applications returned to Registered Body Incomplete or withdrawn applications should in future be returned to the Registered Body, and not to the applicant.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R30	Overseas applicant checking Proposals should be brought forward as soon as possible to improve the checking of people from overseas who want to work with …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R31	Additional database access for CRB As a priority, legislation should be brought forward to enable the CRB to access the following additional databases for the purpose of …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
ANG-1	Specialist policy on investigating indecent exposure At the earliest opportunity, and by September 2024 at the latest, police forces should ensure that they have a specialist policy on …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-2	Improve guidance and training on indecent exposure By December 2024, the College of Policing, in collaboration with the National Police Chiefs' Council, should improve guidance and training on indecent …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-3	Fundamental review of masturbatory indecent exposure treatment With immediate effect, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council should work together to conduct …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-4	Research link between indecent exposure and contact offending With immediate effect, the Home Office, in collaboration with the College of Policing, should commission research to establish if there is an …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-5	Public campaign on indecent exposure criminality By March 2025, the Home Office, together with the National Police Chiefs' Council, should launch a public campaign to: a. raise awareness …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-6	Review sexual offence allegations against serving officers By September 2024, the National Police Chiefs' Council, in collaboration with all force vetting units, and building on the results of the …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-7	In-person interviews and home visits for police candidates With immediate effect, the College of Policing, in collaboration with force recruitment, should ensure that every new candidate applying to become a …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-8	Strengthen recruitment and vetting practices By June 2024, the College of Policing, in collaboration with force vetting units, should take further steps to prevent those unsuitable for …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-9	Improve vetting decision-making quality and consistency By March 2025, the College of Policing, in collaboration with force vetting units, should take steps to improve the quality and consistency …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-10	Vetting Code compliance for officer transfers With immediate effect, all recruiting forces should have regard to the new Vetting Code of Practice, which requires the parent force to …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-11	Strengthen information-sharing practices By December 2024, the College of Policing, in collaboration with force vetting and recruitment units, should ensure that information-sharing practices, including data …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-12	Officers held to higher standard with fettered privacy rights With immediate effect, police forces should convey to all existing and prospective officers and staff that they must be held to a …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-13	Stronger vetting aftercare and randomised re-vetting By December 2024, the College of Policing, in collaboration with all force vetting units, should develop a stronger approach to force vetting …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-14	Public commitment to anti-sexist anti-racist organisation With immediate effect, every police force should commit publicly to being an anti-sexist, anti-misogynistic, anti-racist organisation in order to address, understand and …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-15	Remove barriers to reporting sexual offences by colleagues With immediate effect, all police forces should take action to understand and confront the barriers that police officers and staff face when …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-16	Improve conditions for female officers By September 2024, the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council should review and examine the conditions of female officers …	Angiolini Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
ANG-17	Collection and sharing of data at national and local levels Immediately, the Home Office should lead work, coordinated by the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, to …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-18	Increased use of police Designing Out Crime Officers By November 2026, the Government should explore how to improve the impact that the safety advice provided by police Designing Out Crime …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-19	Targeted and consistent public messaging By March 2026, the Home Office, as the lead department for the response to violence against women and girls, should agree funding …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-20	Empowering and engaging citizens to take action The public has a pivotal role to play in the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces. In recognition …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-21	National roll-out of Project Vigilant By April 2026, the Home Office, the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, and the National Police …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-22	Information and early intervention for men and boys By September 2026, the Home Office, working closely with the Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Department of Health …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-23	Police prioritisation of prevention Immediately, Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners should ensure that the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-24	Implementation of Operation Soteria By March 2026, the Home Office, working with the National Police Chiefs' Council, and the National Centre for Violence Against Women and …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-25	Whole-system approach to preventing sexually motivated crimes By June 2026, building on the wider violence against women and girls strategy, the Government should publish a comprehensive, multi-year and whole-system …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-26	Improved mechanism for converting initiatives from local to national By March 2026, the College of Policing, working with the National Police Chiefs' Council, the Home Office, HMICFRS, and the National Centre …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-27	Perpetrator focus and interventions Immediately, the Home Office, in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Transport, and national and local policing organisations, should …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-28	Improvement of the investigation of sexually motivated crimes By March 2026, the College of Policing and the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, working with …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
ANG-29	Government prioritisation of prevention Immediately, the Government should take action to make it clearer that preventing sexually motivated offences against women in public is an essential …	Angiolini Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
P1-1	Non-mortuary staff accompanied in mortuary Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must ensure that non-mortuary staff and contractors, including maintenance staff employed by the Trust's external facilities …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-2	No deceased left out of fridges overnight Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must assure itself that all regulatory requirements and standards relating to the mortuary are met and …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-3	Criminal record checks compliance Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must assure itself that it is compliant with its own current policy on criminal record checks …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-4	Mortuary Managers qualified and supported Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must assure itself that its Mortuary Managers are suitably qualified and have relevant anatomical pathology technologist …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-5	Mortuary Manager as full-time dedicated role The role of Mortuary Manager at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should be protected as a full-time dedicated role, in recognition …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-6	Review policies on mortuary access Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must review its policies to ensure that only those with appropriate and legitimate access can enter …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-7	Audit and monitor mortuary access Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must audit implementation of any resulting new policy and must regularly monitor access to restricted areas, …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-8	Security as corporate responsibility Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should treat security as a corporate not a local departmental responsibility.	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
P1-9	CCTV in mortuary including post-mortem room Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must install CCTV cameras in the mortuary, including the post-mortem room, to monitor the security of …	Fuller Inquiry (2023)	Accepted

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