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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
IR2-18	Immediate Establishment of Scheme I recommend that a compensation scheme should be set up now and it should begin work this year.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
FR-12	Pre-screening by Internet Providers The Inquiry recommends that the UK government makes it mandatory for all regulated providers of search services and user-to-user services to pre-screen …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-20	Age Verification Online The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its The Internet Investigation Report, dated March 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation requiring …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
103	Ratify Lanzarote Convention The Chair and Panel recommend that the UK government ratifies the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
4	National plan for overseas CSA by UK nationals The Home Office should coordinate the development of a national plan of action addressing child sexual abuse and exploitation overseas by UK …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
104	High risk countries list for travel orders The Home Office should bring forward legislation providing for the establishment and maintenance by the National Crime Agency of a list of …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
37	Westminster whistleblowing policies for CSA Government, political parties and other Westminster institutions must have whistleblowing policies and procedures which cover child sexual abuse and exploitation. Every employee …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
38	Government department safeguarding policy reviews The Cabinet Office must ensure that each government department reviews its child safeguarding policy or policies in light of the expert witness …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
99	Honours forfeiture for CSA convictions The criteria for forfeiture of all honours must be formally extended to include convictions, cautions and cases decided by trial of the …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
100	Posthumous honours forfeiture policy The Cabinet Office should re-examine the policy on posthumous forfeiture, in order to consider the perspectives of victims and survivors of child …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
40	Publish interim online harms code of practice The government should publish, without further delay, the interim code of practice in respect of child sexual abuse and exploitation as proposed …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
71	Pre-screen material before upload The government should require industry to pre-screen material before it is uploaded to the internet to prevent access to known indecent images …	IICSA (2020)	Not Accepted
106	Online age verification legislation The government should introduce legislation requiring providers of online services and social media platforms to implement more stringent age verification techniques on …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
85	Access to records for former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that all institutions which sent children abroad as part of the child migration programmes should ensure …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
92	Apologies to former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that institutions involved in the child migration programmes who have not apologised for their role should …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
93	Financial redress for former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that the UK government establishes a financial redress scheme for surviving former child migrants, providing for …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
L1	Independent Board Governance An independent self regulatory body should be governed by an independent Board. In order to ensure the independence of the body, the …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L2	Chair Appointment Panel The appointment of the Chair of the Board should be made by an appointment panel. The selection of that panel must itself …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L3	Appointment Panel Composition The appointment panel: (a) should be appointed in an independent, fair and open way; (b) should contain a substantial majority of members …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L4	Board Appointment Independence The appointment of the Board should also be an independent process, and the composition of the Board should include people with relevant …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L5	Board Member Composition The members of the Board should be appointed by the same appointment panel that appoints the Chair, together with the Chair (once …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L6	Funding Settlement Funding for the system should be settled in agreement between the industry and the Board, taking into account the cost of fulfilling …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L7	Standards Code Responsibility The standards code must ultimately be the responsibility of, and adopted by, the Board, advised by a Code Committee which may comprise …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L8	Code Content Requirements The code must take into account the importance of freedom of speech, the interests of the public (including the public interest in …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L9	Internal Governance Processes The Board should require, of those who subscribe, appropriate internal governance processes, transparency on what governance processes they have in place, and …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L10	Complaint Handling Mechanism The Board should require all those who subscribe to have an adequate and speedy complaint handling mechanism; it should encourage those who …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L11	Power to Hear Complaints The Board should have the power to hear and decide on complaints about breach of the standards code by those who subscribe. …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L12	Complaint Decision Responsibility Decisions on complaints should be the ultimate responsibility of the Board, advised by complaints handling officials to whom appropriate delegations may be …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L13	Complaints Committee Composition Serving editors should not be members of any Committee advising the Board on complaints and any such Committee should have a composition …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L14	Free Complaints Process It should continue to be the case that complainants are able to bring complaints free of charge.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L15	Power to Direct Remedies In relation to complaints, the Board should have the power to direct appropriate remedial action for breach of standards and the publication …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L16	Apology Placement Power The power to direct the nature, extent and placement of apologies should lie with the Board.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L17	No Prior Restraint Power The Board should not have the power to prevent publication of any material, by anyone, at any time although (in its discretion) …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L18	Investigation Powers The Board, being an independent self-regulatory body, should have authority to examine issues on its own initiative and have sufficient powers to …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L19	Financial Sanctions Power The Board should have the power to impose appropriate and proportionate sanctions, (including financial sanctions up to 1% of turnover with a …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L20	Compliance Record Keeping The Board should have both the power and a duty to ensure that all breaches of the standards code that it considers …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L21	Annual Report Requirements The Board should publish an Annual Report identifying: (a) the body's subscribers, identifying any significant changes in subscriber numbers; (b) the number …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L22	Arbitration Service The Board should provide an arbitral process in relation to civil legal claims against subscribers, drawing on independent legal experts of high …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L23	Coverage of News Publishers A new system of regulation should not be considered sufficiently effective if it does not cover all significant news publishers.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L24	Open Membership Terms The membership of a regulatory body should be open to all publishers on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, including making membership potentially …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L25	ICO and Regulatory Membership In any reconsideration of the powers of the Information Commissioner (or replacement body), power should be given to that body to determine …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Not Accepted
L26	Arbitration and Costs It should be open any subscriber to a recognised regulatory body to rely on the fact of such membership and on the …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Not Accepted
L27	Legislative Recognition Requirements In order to meet the public concern that the organisation by the press of its regulation is by a body which is …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L28	Recognition Body Role The responsibility for recognition and certification of a regulator shall rest with a recognition body. In its capacity as the recognition body, …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L29	Recognition Requirements The requirements for recognition should be those set out the recommendations set out above numbered 1 to 24 inclusive and more fully …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L30	Periodic Review of Regulator The operation of any certified body should be reviewed by the recognition body after two years and thereafter at three yearly intervals.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L31	Ofcom as Recognition Body The role of recognition body, that is to say, to recognise and certify that any particular body satisfies (and, on review, continues …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L32	Multiple Regulatory Bodies It should be possible for the recognition body to recognise more than one regulatory body, should more than one seek recognition and …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L33	Duty to Protect Press Freedom In passing legislation to identify the legitimate requirements to be met by an independent regulator organised by the press, and to provide …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part
L34	Compliance Reports and Senior Responsibility In addition to Recommendation 10 above, a new regulatory body should consider requiring: (a) that newspapers publish compliance reports in their own …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part

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