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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
L77	Police Media Contact Rule The simple rule included within the 'Interim ACPO Guidance for Relationships with the Media' should be adopted as good practice. This is: …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L78	PNC Access Auditing The Police Service should re-examine the rigour of the auditing process and the frequency of the conduct of audits in relation to …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L79	ACPO Guidance on Hospitality The recent ACPO Guidance should more specifically spell out the dangers of consuming alcohol in a setting of casual hospitality (without necessarily …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L80	ACPO Post-employment Restrictions Consideration should be given to the terms upon which ACPO rank officers are appointed and, in particular, whether these terms should include …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L81	Enhanced Whistleblower Protection An enhanced system for protection of whistleblowers and for providing assistance for the Police Service on general ethical issues should at least …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L83	Disclosure of Media Contacts Party Leaders, Ministers and Front Bench Opposition spokesmen should consider publishing: (a) the simple fact of long term relationships with media proprietors, …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L84	Immediate Transparency Need The suggestions that I have made in the direction of greater transparency about meetings and contacts should be considered not just as …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L85	Plurality Focus on News The particular public policy goals of ensuring that citizens are informed and preventing too much influence in any one pair of hands …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L86	Include Online in Plurality Online publication should be included in any market assessment for consideration of plurality.	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L87	Plurality Measurement Framework Ofcom and the Government should work, with the industry, on the measurement framework, in order to achieve as great a measure of …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L88	Plurality Thresholds Lower Than Competition The levels of influence that would give rise to concerns in relation to plurality must be lower, and probably considerably lower, than …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L89	Full Menu of Plurality Remedies Ofcom has presented the Inquiry and the Government with a full menu of potential remedies, and it has not been argued or …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L90	Periodic Plurality Reviews The Government should consider whether periodic plurality reviews or an extension to the public interest test within the markets regime in competition …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L91	Media Merger Referral Consultation Before making a decision to refer a media merger to the competition authorities on public interest grounds, the Secretary of State should …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
L92	Secretary of State Media Merger Decisions The Secretary of State should remain responsible for public interest decisions in relation to media mergers. The Secretary of State should be …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted
AS-1	Document Retention and Storage Policy Consideration should be given to the establishment of a policy by the Ministry of Defence to ensure that all documents or other …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-2	Recording of Interrogation and Tactical Questioning Digital video and audio recordings should be made of both interrogation and tactical questioning sessions. Such recordings should be retrieved from theatre, …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-3	Training Material Dating and Archiving All training material should be dated, appropriately retained and archived in such a way that it can easily be established when the …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-4	Shooting Incident Policy A Shooting Incident Policy should be drafted which is achievable in practice in Theatre, which is compliant with Article 2 of the …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-5	Detainee Capture and Condition Records Appropriate procedures should be introduced to ensure that there is an accurate and detailed contemporaneous record of the circumstances relating to the …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-6	Informing Detainees of Rights All detainees should be clearly informed of their rights and obligations as soon as is practicable upon arrival at any detention facility. …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-7	Strip-Search Safeguards Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that minimum safeguards are in place where a detainee is to be strip-searched. These include …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-8	Interpreter Availability There should be an appropriate review of all current, relevant policy and procedures to ensure that a sufficient number of suitably trained …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
AS-9	Medical Fitness for Detention Forms Appropriate forms should be made available to allow a medical examiner to declare a detainee unfit for detention and questioning. The decision …	Al-Sweady Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
R1	Prison records retention Given what we discovered about the destruction of prisoners' files, many of which would have been important historical records, we recommend that …	Billy Wright Inquiry (2010)	Accepted
R2	HMP Maghaberry lessons learned Many of the problems of HMP Maze in 1997 arose from the fact that by then it was the sole prison in …	Billy Wright Inquiry (2010)	Accepted
R3	Prison service reform process We have identified a series of failures in the management of the NIPS in 1997. What we learned about the current management …	Billy Wright Inquiry (2010)	Accepted
BAHA-1	Prohibition on Hooding The MoD should retain its current absolute prohibition on the use of hoods on Captured Personnel (CPErS).	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-2	Standard Orders Prohibiting Five Techniques Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) 1-10 should include the requirement for standard orders to be issued for each operation prohibiting the use of …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-3	Broaden Stress Position Definition The definition of stress positions in JDP 1-10 and elsewhere should be broadened so that it is not dependent upon the intention …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-4	Hooding Guidance The essence of guidance on hooding should be that it is prohibited at any time for whatever purpose to place a sandbag …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-5	Noise Prohibition Definition The definition of the prohibition on subjecting CPErS to noise should be broadened. It should prohibit subjecting CPErS to any unnecessary excessive …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-6	Redacted Recommendation [REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-7	Five Techniques Communication The MoD should give careful consideration as to whether referring to the five techniques as being prohibited 'as an aid to interrogation' …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-8	Five Techniques Placement in Doctrine The prohibition on the five techniques should not appear only within the Tactical Questioning and interrogation section of JDP 1-10 since it …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-9	Five Techniques in JTTP The prohibition on the five techniques should appear in the Joint Tactics, Techniques and Procedures guidance as well as in the main …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-10	Sight Deprivation Principles Five principles on permitted sight deprivation should be consistently emphasised in JDP 1-10 and subordinate doctrine and instructions: (1) where practicable the …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-11	Sleep Deprivation Prohibition JDP 1-10 should make clear that it is prohibited deliberately to keep prisoners awake, even for short periods, merely because they may …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-12	CPErS Meals Guidance JDP 1-10 should give some guidance in relation to the number of daily meals for CPErS and the timing of them. Such …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-13	Redacted Recommendation [REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-14	Communicating Sight Deprivation Reasons JDP 1-10 should include guidance that where practicable CPErS should be told the reason why sight deprivation is being applied. Suitable simple …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-15	Unit Holding Area Checklist JDP 1-10 should include a simple checklist covering both the principles and practicalities of accommodation for unit holding areas.	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-16	Death in Custody Checklist JDP 1-10 should include a simple checklist for actions on a death in custody. Where there is a death in custody, particularly …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-17	CPErS Complaints Procedure JDP 1-10 should incorporate the requirement that on entry to and exit from a theatre level detention facility, CPErS are proactively asked …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-18	Whistleblower Protection JDP 1-10 should address the protection that will be afforded to service personnel who make complaints or allegations in good faith of …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-19	Redacted Recommendation [REDACTED - This recommendation has been redacted from the public version of the report]	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-20	Doctrine Usability Review The MoD should ensure that Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) reviews whether its protocols for layout and pagination of joint doctrine …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-21	Generic CPErS Handling SOI Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) should complete work on a generic theatre-level Standard Operating Instruction (SOI) for CPErS handling. This should stand as …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-22	Tactical Questioning Policy Clarity Urgent consideration must be given to amending the tactical questioning policy to make clear what approaches are and are not authorised for …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted
BAHA-24	Harsh Approach Parameters To the extent that the MoD considers that the harsh approach can still lawfully be used in interrogation: (1) there is a …	Baha Mousa Inquiry (2011)	Accepted

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