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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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| 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 | 95 |
| 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 | 19 |
| Morecambe Bay Investigation | 44 | 44 |
| Brook House Inquiry | 33 | 28 |
| Bichard Inquiry | 31 | 31 |
| Angiolini Inquiry | 30 | 16 |
| Post Office Horizon Inquiry | 27 | 25 |
| Jermaine Baker Inquiry | 26 | 22 |
| Edinburgh Tram Inquiry | 24 | 21 |
| Daniel Morgan Panel | 23 | 23 |
| 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
| Code | Recommendation | Inquiry | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI-153 |
Use recording equipment during exercises
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that, in the …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-154 |
Training on use of recording equipment
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should ensure that training is …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-155 |
Obtain comprehensive accounts from commanders
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and the Fire Service College should take steps to ensure …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-156 |
Ambulance Liaison Officer resourcing
The Home Office, the Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider how to ensure that …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-157 |
Review stretcher availability for mass casualties
The Home Office, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Transport and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-158 |
Guidance on commander location during incidents
The Home Office, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, the College of Policing and the Fire Service College should develop guidance as to …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-159 |
Consider funding arrangements for police services
The Inquiry heard evidence that the impact of public funding cuts fell disproportionately hard on metropolitan police services, such as Greater Manchester …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-160 |
Train all firefighters in first responder interventions
The National Fire Chiefs Council and the Fire Service College should establish a scheme for ensuring that all firefighters are trained in …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-162 |
Define BTP Senior Duty Officer role in Major Incidents
The role of the Senior Duty Officer in a Major Incident should be clearly defined and explained in the British Transport Police …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-165 |
Ten Second Triage training for frontline staff
The team led by Philip Cowburn has devised a tool that is designed for use by a wide range of emergency responders …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-166 |
Introduce Major Incident Triage Tool
The team led by Philip Cowburn has devised a tool that is designed to replace the existing systems of primary and secondary …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-167 |
Clarify Casualty Collection Point terminology
The terms Casualty Collection Point and Casualty Clearing Station are capable of being confused, one for the other, particularly in circumstances of …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-168 |
Review Major Incident plans for joint working
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to Major Incident plans in order to achieve those aims.
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-169 |
Review Operation Plato guidance
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters Operation Plato guidance in order to …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022) | Accepted |
| MAI-1 |
School-to-college records on radicalisation vulnerability
A clean start should be possible when a student moves from school to college or higher education, such that it would not …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2023) | Accepted |
| MAI-52 |
Consider Commission for Countering Extremism report
In 2021, the Commission for Countering Extremism published a report entitled Operating with Impunity. Hateful Extremism: The Need for a Legal Framework. …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2023) | Accepted |
| MAI-54 |
School records on radicalisation vulnerability
It is recommended that the Department for Education consider whether schools should include notes of any significant behavioural problems on the Common …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2023) | Accepted |
| MAI-55 |
Risk-based visitor restrictions for radicalising prisoners
It is recommended that the Home Office consider introducing a system based on a robust assessment of the risk a prisoner poses …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2023) | Accepted |
| MAI-60 |
Record images of students with weapons
It is recommended to all educational establishments and the Department for Education that images of school pupils or college students handling firearms, …
|
Manchester Arena Inquiry (2023) | Accepted |
| P1-1 |
Require external wall information for fire services
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to provide their local fire and rescue service with …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-2 |
Train fire personnel on external wall fire risks
All fire and rescue services ensure that their personnel at all levels understand the risk of fire taking hold in the external …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-3 |
LFB to review PN633 Appendix 1
The LFB review, and revise as appropriate, Appendix 1 to PN633 to ensure that it fully reflects the principles in GRA 3.2.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-4 |
Train LFB officers on high-rise inspections
The LFB ensure that all officers of the rank of Crew Manager and above are trained in carrying out the requirements of …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-5 |
Require building floor plans for fire services
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to provide their local fire and rescue services with …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-6 |
Require premises information boxes
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to ensure that the building contains a premises information …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-7 |
Equip fire services to receive electronic plans
All fire and rescue services be equipped to receive and store electronic plans and to make them available to incident commanders and …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-8 |
Require monthly firefighter lift inspections
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to carry out regular inspections of any lifts that …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-9 |
Require monthly lift control mechanism tests
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to carry out regular tests of the mechanism which …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-10 |
LFB review control room communications policy
The London Fire Brigade review its policies on communications between the control room and the incident commander.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-11 |
Train incident commanders on control room communications
All officers who may be expected to act as incident commanders (i.e. all those above the rank of Crew Manager) receive training …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-12 |
Train control room operators on incident commander communications
All control room operators of Assistant Operations Manager rank and above receive training directed to the specific requirements of communication with the …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-13 |
Dedicated control room to incident commander link
A dedicated communication link be provided between the senior officer in the control room and the incident commander.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-14 |
Distinguish between advice and rescue callers
The LFB's policies be amended to draw a clearer distinction between callers seeking advice and callers who believe they are trapped and …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-15 |
Regular refresher training for control room operators
The LFB provide regular and more effective refresher training to control room operators at all levels, including supervisors.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-16 |
Develop policies for handling multiple FSG calls
All fire and rescue services develop policies for handling a large number of Fire Survival Guidance (FSG) calls simultaneously.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-17 |
Electronic FSG recording and display systems
Electronic systems be developed to record FSG information in the control room and display it simultaneously at the bridgehead and in any …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-18 |
Develop stay put to evacuation transition policies
Policies be developed for managing a transition from 'stay put' to 'get out'.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-19 |
Train control room staff on evacuation advice changes
Control room staff receive training directed specifically to handling such a change of advice and conveying it effectively to callers.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-20 |
Investigate inter-control room information sharing
Steps be taken to investigate methods by which assisting control rooms can obtain access to the information available to the host control …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-21 |
LAS and MPS review FSG call protocols
The London Ambulance Service and Metropolitan Police Service review their protocols and policies to ensure that their operators can identify FSG calls …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-22 |
LFB improve deployment control policies
The LFB develop policies and training to ensure better control of deployments and the use of resources.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-23 |
Improve crew debrief information systems
The LFB develop policies and training to ensure that better information is obtained from crews returning from deployments and that the information …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-24 |
Direct control room to incident commander communications
The LFB develop a communication system to enable direct communication between the control room and the incident commander and improve the means …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-25 |
Investigate modern control room to bridgehead communications
The LFB investigate the use of modern communication techniques to provide a direct line of communication between the control room and the …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-26 |
Equipment for BA communication in high-rise buildings
The LFB urgently take steps to obtain equipment that enables firefighters wearing helmets and breathing apparatus to communicate with the bridgehead effectively, …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-27 |
Command support system operational on all units
Urgent steps be taken to ensure that the command support system is fully operative on all command units and that crews are …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-28 |
National guidelines for high-rise evacuations
The government develop national guidelines for carrying out partial or total evacuations of high-rise residential buildings, such guidelines to include the means …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-29 |
Fire services develop evacuation policies and training
Fire and rescue services develop policies for partial and total evacuation of high-rise residential buildings and training to support them.
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted |
| P1-30 |
Require evacuation plans for high-rise buildings
The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to draw up and keep under regular review evacuation …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted in Part |
| P1-31 |
Require evacuation alarm systems in high-rise buildings
All high-rise residential buildings (both those already in existence and those built in the future) be equipped with facilities for use by …
|
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019) | Accepted in Part |