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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
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
IBI-A-2e	Transparency of Scheme Design The Government and IBCA establish a mechanism by which individuals or organisations may raise concerns which arise about any aspect of the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-3a	HIV Eligibility Start Date An amendment to the Regulations be made as soon as possible to remove the reference to 1 January 1982 from Regulation 3.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4c	Effective Treatment - Earnings Floor For the calculation of Financial Loss awards for Hepatitis B, people born after 1953 should be treated like those born in or …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4d	Deeming of Severity Bands Where the level of severity of a person's infection at Level 3 or more has been established to IBCA's satisfaction in relation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4e	Evidence of Diagnosis Date Regulation 14(2)(c) be amended to remove the requirement for evidence of the date of diagnosis of Hepatitis B or C. An appropriate …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-8b	Affected Estates The Regulations be amended such that where someone who would be an eligible affected person dies between 21 May 2024 and 31 …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-9a	Bereaved Partner Support Scheme The IBSS cut-off date of 31 March 2025 be reviewed, that the scheme should as soon as possible reinstate support payments to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-1	Compensation Scheme My principal recommendation remains that a compensation scheme should be set up now	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2a	UK and Devolved Memorials A permanent memorial be established in the UK and consideration be given to memorials in each of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2b	Treloar's School Memorial A memorial be established at public expense, dedicated specifically to the children infected at Treloar’s school. The memorial should be such as …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2c	Community Support Events There should be at least three events, approximately six months apart, drawing together those infected and affected, the nature and timing of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3a	Medical Education - Curriculum The General Medical Council, and NHS Education for Scotland, Health Education and Improvement Wales, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3b	Medical Education - Training Materials They should look favourably upon putting together a package of training materials, with excerpts from oral and written testimony, to underpin what …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3c	Inquiry Website Preservation The Inquiry website is maintained online	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(i)	Duty of Candour - Northern Ireland Duty of candour: A statutory duty of candour in healthcare should be introduced in Northern Ireland.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(ii)	Duty of Candour - Scotland and Wales Review Duty of candour: The operation of the duties of candour in healthcare in Scotland and in Wales should be reviewed, as it …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(iii)	Duty of Candour - England Review Duty of candour: The review of the duty of candour currently under way in England should be completed as soon as practicable.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4c(i)	Simplify External Regulation Regulation: That external regulation of safety in healthcare be simplified. As a first step towards this, there should be a UK wide …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4c(ii)	Safety Management Systems Coordination Regulation: That the national healthcare administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales explore, and if appropriate, support the development and implementation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4d	Patient Records Audit Patient Records: Before the end of 2027 there should be a formal audit, publicly reported, of the extent of success of digitisation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4e	Cross-Administration Patient Safety Coordination Coordination of patient records with devolved governments: Consideration should be given by the national healthcare administrations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(i)	Hepatologist Oversight and Fibroscan Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have been …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(iii)	Uncertainty About Fibrosis All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Where there is any …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(iv)	Fibroscan for Liver Imaging All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Fibroscan technology should be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(vi)	Commissioning Hepatology Services All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those bodies responsible for …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7a(ii)	Tranexamic Acid - Scotland, Wales and NI In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offering the use of tranexamic acid should be considered a treatment of preference in respect of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7a(iii)	Transfusion Performance Benchmarking Consideration be given to standardising and benchmarking transfusion performance between hospitals in order to deliver better patient blood management	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7b	Transfusion 2024 Review Progress Review of progress towards the Transfusion 2024 recommendations: Progress in implementation of the Transfusion 2024 recommendations be reviewed, and next steps be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7f(i)	Transfusion Outcome Framework Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That a framework be established for recording outcomes for recipients of blood components. That those records …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7f(ii)	NHSBT Transfusion Outcome Funding Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: To the extent that the funding for digital transformation does not already cover the setting up …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted

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