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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	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	13
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

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Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
RHI-39	Ministerial Familiarity with Legislation Any Minister presenting the Assembly with legislation for approval should sufficiently read and familiarise themselves with that legislation and ensure an adequate …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-40	Declaration of Interests Ministers, Special Advisers and officials in Northern Ireland government Departments should declare their interests annually in writing. When any conflict of interest …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-41	Special Adviser Code of Conduct Revision The Special Adviser Code of Conduct should be revised. How these changes are achieved will need to be a matter for the …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-42	Ministerial Code Revision The Code of Conduct issued to Northern Ireland Ministers in 2007 (contained within the Northern Ireland Ministerial Code 2006) should be revised …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-44	NIAO Progress Assessment Role The Inquiry recommends a role in future for the Northern Ireland Audit Office in assessing and validating the extent of progress in …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
HIA-1	Public Apology We recommend that the Northern Ireland Executive and those who were responsible for each of the institutions investigated by the Inquiry where …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-2	Memorial at Stormont We recommend that a suitable physical memorial should be erected in Parliament Buildings, or in the grounds of the Stormont Estate.	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-3	Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse (COSICA) We therefore recommend that a designated person should act as an advocate for such children, and should be responsible for ensuring the …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-4	Compensation as Lump Sum Payment We therefore recommend that compensation should take the form of a lump sum payment.	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-5	Publicly Funded Compensation Scheme We recommend that the Northern Ireland Executive create a publicly funded compensation scheme.	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-6	HIA Redress Board We consider the appropriate method of administering the compensation scheme is to create a specific Historic Institutional Abuse Redress Board for that …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-7	Compensation Amounts and Caps We recommend that the amount of compensation should therefore consist of one or more of the following elements. (i) A standard payment …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-8	Specialist Care and Assistance Facilities Sufficient funds should be made available by government on a ring-fenced basis for a fixed period of ten years, subject to a …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-9	Social Security Payments Unaffected We also recommend that social security payments should not be affected by lump sum payments awarded by the HIA Redress Board.	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-10	Compensation Payments Tax-Free We recommend that payments of compensation should not be taxable, and that the Northern Ireland Executive make representations to the Treasury and …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-11	Legal Aid for Applicants We recommend that applicants should be eligible for legal aid to allow them to obtain legal assistance to make an application for …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted
HIA-12	Financial Contributions from Institutions We recommend that any voluntary institution found by the Inquiry to have been guilty of systemic failings should be asked to make …	HIA Inquiry (2017)	Accepted

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