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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

903 of 1,814 · page 17 of 19

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
RHI-22	Proactive DoF Monitoring Particularly where a policy initiative is demand-led, novel, complex and/or likely to be lengthy, consideration should be given to increasing Department of …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-23	Ministerial Notification of Approval Conditions Ministers should always be advised of any conditions attached to the approval of a policy or project by the Department of Finance. …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-24	Staff Move Sequencing Senior managers in the Civil Service must take responsibility for guiding and, where necessary, sequencing the timing of staff moves so that …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-25	Ministerial Decision-Making In light of their legal responsibility to direct and control the Department for which they are responsible, and their democratic accountability to …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-26	Meeting Records Notes of significant meetings between officials and ministers, particularly those affecting decision-making and spending, must be taken and retained. The responsibility for …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-27	Private Office Record Keeping Ministers' responses to submissions should be formally and timeously recorded and disseminated to officials by the Minister's Private Office. That responsibility should …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-28	Record Keeping Culture and Audit The culture and practice of record keeping and access to records within the Northern Ireland Civil Service needs to change so that …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-29	Departmental Finance Functions The finance function within a Department should exert the necessary authority and capability to fulfil the requirements of 'Managing Public Money Northern …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-30	Budget Holder Financial Training Civil servants who are responsible for holding and monitoring a budget should have to demonstrate core requirements in financial literacy and an …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-31	Value for Money Priority Any imperative to spend a budget within a given timeframe should not be allowed to take precedence over how that budget is …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-32a	Governance Systems Review The checks and balances within a Department designed to catch problems early failed over many years in DETI to identify certain of …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-32b	Civil Servants Raising Concerns Civil servants should be encouraged not to feel in any way inhibited about disclosing possible or emerging problems, raising concerns, negative aspects …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-33	HMT Communication Protocol The protocol for relations with HMT, namely that the Northern Ireland Department of Finance must be the sole conduit of formal communication, …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-34	Rapid Response Capacity The Northern Ireland Civil Service should have regard to best practice elsewhere about how to respond effectively when serious problems emerge, such …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-35	Early Warning Systems Better systems are needed for spotting early warnings and concerns from the public and businesses that something unexpected could be happening or …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-36	Learning from Failures The Northern Ireland Civil Service should develop a better process to learn from past failures, one that goes beyond the traditional method …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-37	Reduce Organisational Silos In keeping with the spirit of the Ministerial Pledge of Office, the Northern Ireland political parties, supported by the Northern Ireland Civil …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted
RHI-38	Assembly Committee Scrutiny The Inquiry recommends that the Northern Ireland Assembly should strengthen the scrutiny role of Assembly Committees, reviewing whether the existing balance between …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Accepted in Part
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-43	Independent Compliance Assessment In addition, the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly ought, in the Inquiry's view, to give due consideration to an independent mechanism to …	RHI Inquiry (2020)	Not 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
SP1	Single agency for high-risk children Phase 2 should consider what single agency or structure should be appointed or established to record, monitor and co-ordinate interventions for children …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP2	Shared multi-agency risk-assessment tool Phase 2 should consider the development of a shared multi‑agency risk‑assessment tool that is clear, accessible and suitable for use across public …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP3	Internet access restrictions for high-risk children Phase 2 should consider whether there should be a further ability to restrict or monitor access to the internet on the part …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP4	Taxi driver duty to report criminal activity The Department for Transport should require local authorities to ensure that all licensed taxi drivers have a clear duty promptly to report …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP5	Taxi company and school safeguarding arrangements The Department for Transport should ensure that local authorities establish effective arrangements between licensed taxi companies and schools. These should enable school …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP6	Police use of unarmed officers in immediate threat All police forces should ensure that their policies, guidance and training address taking on a calculated degree of risk in recognition of …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP7	Second Force Incident Manager support All police forces that have not implemented a model providing immediate and direct support to Force Incident Managers, ideally through a second …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP8	Ambulance staff training exercise funding NHS England should review funding, and consider providing additional resources, to enable all emergency response ambulance staff to participate in appropriate training …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP9	NWAS Major Incident declaration procedures North West Ambulance Service should review its procedures for declaring a Major Incident or Major Incident (Standby) to ensure clarity in how …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP10	Police-ambulance terminology interoperability Merseyside Police and North West Ambulance Service should review the terminology used in their systems and procedures to ensure shared understanding and …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP11	Out-of-school settings guidance update The Department for Education should update the out‑of‑school settings guidance by reviewing the health and safety section to ensure terminology is clear …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP12	Detection of concerning online behaviour Phase 2 should consider systems to detect and report concerning online behaviour and suspicious combinations of purchases. This should include consideration of: …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP13	Regulation of castor bean sales The Home Office’s ongoing review of the sale of castor beans should consider regulation of the number of castor beans that can …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending
SP14	Archery bow age verification and restrictions Phase 2 should consider whether conventional archery bows should be subject to age‑verification prior to sale, delivery restrictions including ID checks, mandatory …	Southport Inquiry (2026)	Response Pending

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