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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

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Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
P2-57	Reconsider Phase 1 recommendations in light of Phase 2 That further consideration be given to the recommendations made in the Phase 1 report in the light of our findings in this …	Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
P2-58	Reconsider LGA Guide paragraph 79.11 advice That the advice contained in paragraph 79.11 of the LGA Guide be reconsidered. (113.83)	Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
POH-1	Respond to recommendations by 10 October 2025 HM Government and/or the Department and where appropriate the Post Office and Fujitsu shall provide written responses to my recommendations by 10 …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-2	Define and publish meaning of full and fair financial redress The Minister and/or the Department in conjunction with the Post Office shall make a public announcement explaining what is meant by the …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-3	Apply full and fair meaning consistently across all schemes The Post Office, the Department and the Minister shall ensure that all decision makers in HSS, GLOS and OCS/HCRS apply the meaning …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-5	Allow 3-month window to accept Fixed Sum Offer after assessment Any claimant who opts to have a claim assessed when the claim is submitted to the Post Office or the Department may …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-6	Appoint senior lawyer to ensure HSS offers are full and fair A suitably qualified senior lawyer shall be appointed to HSS as soon as is practicable with the aim that any such appointee …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-7	Grant appropriate powers to HSS senior lawyer The appointed person shall be given appropriate powers to ensure that these tasks can be performed and carried into effect. If it …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-8	Require HSS first offers match Independent Advisory Panel recommendation In HSS the Post Office shall be obliged to make, and the Department shall be obliged to approve (when necessary) a first …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-9	Allow HSS Fixed Sum acceptors to appeal with independent permission The Department following consultation with the Advisory Board, claimants' representatives and any other persons or bodies it thinks appropriate, shall give urgent …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-10	Clarify best offer principle in HSSA guidance with examples The Department shall issue a supplementary document/announcement clarifying the meaning and intent of the "best offer" principle in the Horizon Shortfall Scheme …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-11	Apply best offer principle equally in GLOS The "best offer" principle which will apply in HSSA, as explained in response to Recommendation 10, shall be equally applicable in GLOS.	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-12	Amend GLOS to allow claimants oral submissions at panel hearings The scheme documents governing GLOS should be amended so that a right is conferred upon claimants (exercisable by the claimants themselves or …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-14	Post Office to engage in negotiations during HSSA appeal period During the nine-month period afforded to claimants to submit an appeal to the Department in HSSA, the Post Office shall engage in …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-16	Clarify whether HCRS and OCS assessment processes differ The Department shall make a public announcement in which (a) it clarifies whether there will be any differences in the process for …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-18	Devise redress process for affected family members The Department shall devise a process for providing financial redress to close family members of those most adversely affected by Horizon. Such …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-19	Publish restorative justice programme by 31 October 2025 By 31 October 2025, the Department, Fujitsu and the Post Office shall publish, either separately or together, a report outlining any agreed …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
POH-IR1-2	Publish Advisory Board meeting reports within 21 days The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board shall produce written reports in respect of each of their meetings in relation to each of the …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
POH-IR1-4	Increase Advisory Board membership if needed for capacity If the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board considers it necessary, the number of persons appointed to the Board should be increased so as …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
POH-IR1-5	Seek court directions for GLO compensation in bankruptcy cases DBT shall take such steps as are necessary within 28 days of the publication of this report to seek appropriate directions under …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
POH-IR1-6	Publish proposals for equal tax treatment of compensation payments DBT shall publish within 28 days of the publication of this report its proposals for ensuring that applicants to all schemes are …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
COVID-M1.1	Simplify Emergency Preparedness Structures The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each simplify and reduce the number of structures with responsibility for …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.3	Improved Risk Assessment Approach The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.5	Pandemic Data Systems and Research The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.6	Triennial Pandemic Exercises The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.7	Publish Exercise Reports and Lessons For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.9	External Red Teams for Resilience The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each introduce the use of red teams in the Civil Service …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M2.2	Devolved Nations SAGE Attendance The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should invite the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to nominate a small number of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.3	UK-wide Expert Register The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should develop and maintain a register of experts across the four nations of the UK who …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.4	Publish Technical Advice During Emergencies During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.5	Advisory Group Terms of Appointment The Government Office for Science (GO-Science), the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) should each develop …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.6	Enact Socio-economic Duty The UK government should bring into force in England section 1 of the Equality Act 2010, implementing the socio-economic duty. The Northern …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.8	Vulnerable People Framework The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.10	Pandemic Decision-Making Framework The UK government and devolved administrations should set out in future pandemic preparedness strategies how decision-making will work in a future pandemic. …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.11	Leadership Succession Arrangements The UK government and the devolved administrations should each establish formal arrangements for covering the roles of Prime Minister and First Minister …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.12	Central Emergency Taskforces The response to a future whole-system civil emergency should be coordinated via central taskforces in each of the UK, Scotland, Wales and …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.14	Accessible Emergency Communications The UK government and the devolved administrations should each develop action plans for how government communications will be made more accessible during …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.16	Civil Contingencies Act Review The UK government should undertake a review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to assess its potential role in managing future civil …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.18	Devolved Nations COBR Attendance The UK government should invite the devolved administrations, as a matter of standard practice, to nominate relevant ministers and officials to attend …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.19	Four Nations Pandemic Structure While intergovernmental relations should be facilitated through COBR in the initial months of any future pandemic, the UK government and devolved administrations …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1a	Open Registration The scheme be opened to registration to everyone who may be eligible.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1b	Registration and Application Forms There be forms (devised by IBCA) for people to register and apply for a core award and the supplementary awards with/without the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1c	Legal Support Signposting IBCA include a prominent reference to the availability of legal support paid by IBCA on all registration and application forms and in …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1d	Three-Cohort Prioritisation When IBCA opens up the service beyond people infected and registered with the support schemes, IBCA: (i) update the sequencing to three …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1e	Oral Representations at Review IBCA consider making provision, either generally or in specific cases, for oral representations to be made where a decision is reviewed internally, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1f	Written Reasons for Decisions Written reasons for the original decision must be provided so that the review process can operate fairly.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2a	Publish Guidance and Board Minutes IBCA should publish: guidance, advice or instructions to claim managers; work undertaken by IBCA with the Cabinet Office's policy team to ensure …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2b	Share Clinical Assessor Advice In respect of any case in which the advice of a clinical assessor has been given, in relation to the person concerned …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2c	Community Advisory Body A formal role be given within IBCA for an advisory body consisting of people infected and affected, covering a range of experience …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2d	Structured Response to Community Input To build confidence that IBCA is actively listening to people infected and affected, IBCA adopt more of a structured response to contributions …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted

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