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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
ETI-12	Record Keeping Requirements For transparency, Scottish Ministers should maintain minutes documenting: discussions and decisions between Ministers and civil servants regarding publicly-funded project involvement; discussions with …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-13	Utility Diversion Planning Light rail procurement strategies must adequately address utility location uncertainties, requiring route exposure and clearance well before construction, specifying elapsed time between …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-14	Utility Diversion Risk Management While acknowledging utility diversion approaches, promoters should demonstrate adequate risk management proposals without prescriptive requirements regarding MUDFA versus bow wave methods.	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-15	Qualified Project Management Project promoters should appoint procurement and project managers with qualified, experienced permanent employees who have successfully delivered similar projects on time and …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-16	Design Engagement Process Following designer appointment, continuous engagement with promoters, owners, project managers, planning authorities, utility companies, and affected landowners should clarify design criteria, with …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-17	Governance Structure The governance structure for the delivery of a major project such as a light rail scheme should follow published guidance and ensure …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-18	Effective Communication and Reporting There should be effective communication and reporting at all stages of the project, including accurate progress reports to councillors and stakeholders, with …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-19	Collaborative Delivery At all stages of the project there should be a collaborative approach to delivering it, including co-location of representatives from each organisation …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-20	Prohibition on Misleading Reports from ALEOs The directors, employees and consultants of the company responsible for the procurement and delivery of the project as project managers, including an …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
ETI-21	Duty of Officials to Councillors Local authority officials should be mindful at all times of the distinction in roles between them and councillors, who are solely responsible …	Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
R1	National IT system for police intelligence A national IT system for England and Wales to support police intelligence should be introduced as a matter of urgency. The Home …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R2	PLX system introduction The PLX system, which flags that intelligence is held about someone by particular police forces, should be introduced in England and Wales …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R3	Police IT procurement review The procurement of IT systems by the police should be reviewed to ensure that, wherever possible, national solutions are delivered to national …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R4	PNC investment Investment should be made available by Government to secure the PNC's medium and long-term future, given its importance to intelligence-led policing and …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R5	PNC Code of Practice implementation The new Code of Practice, made under the Police Reform Act 2002, dealing with the quality and timeliness of PNC data input, …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R6	PNC data quality inspection The quality and timeliness of PNC data input should be routinely inspected as part of the Policing Performance Assessment Framework (PPAF) and …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R7	Court results PNC transfer The transfer of responsibility for inputting court results onto the PNC should be reaffirmed by the Court Service and the Home Office …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R8	Information management Code of Practice A Code of Practice should be produced covering record creation, review, retention, deletion and information sharing. This should be made under the …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R9	Key principles of information management The Code of Practice must clearly set out the key principles of good information management (capture, review, retention, deletion and sharing), having …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R10	Information management standards The Code of Practice must set out the standards to be met in terms of systems (including IT), accountability, training, resources and …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R11	Sexual offences intelligence retention The Code of Practice should have particular regard to the factors to be considered when reviewing the retention or deletion of intelligence …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R12	Police notification of child offences The Government should reaffirm the guidance in Working Together to Safeguard Children so that the police are notified as soon as possible …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R13	Criteria for police notification National guidance should be produced to inform the decision as to whether or not to notify the police. This guidance could usefully …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R14	Recording non-referral decisions The Integrated Children's System should record those cases where a decision is taken not to refer to the police.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R15	Inspection of non-referral decisions The Commission for Social Care Inspection should, as part of any social services inspection, review whether decisions not to inform the police …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R16	Interview training for headteachers Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R17	Trained panel member requirement From a date to be agreed, no interview panel to appoint staff working in schools should be convened without at least one …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R18	Inspection of school recruitment The relevant inspection bodies should, as part of their inspection, review the existence and effectiveness of a school's selection and recruitment arrangements.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R19	Registration scheme for working with children New arrangements should be introduced requiring those who wish to work with children, or vulnerable adults, to be registered. This register – …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R20	Standards for police vetting checks HMIC should develop, with ACPO and the CRB, the standards to be observed by police forces in carrying out vetting checks. These …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R21	Enhanced Disclosure for school staff All posts, including those in schools, that involve working with children, and vulnerable adults, should be subject to the Enhanced Disclosure regime.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R22	Identity checking responsibilities The Registered Bodies' precise responsibilities for checking identities need to be clarified urgently.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R23	Database access for identity verification Registered Bodies, or the CRB, should be able to check passports and driving licences presented as proof of identity against the Passport …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R24	Photograph requirement for identity documents There should be an expectation that documents produced to confirm identity should, wherever possible, include a photograph.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R25	Fingerprints for identity verification Fingerprints should be used as a means of verifying identity.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R26	Address verification guidance Guidance should be issued to Registered Bodies on how to verify that applicants have given a full and accurate account of their …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R27	Information verification confirmation Registered Bodies should be required to confirm that they have checked the information on the 'Police Check Form' in accordance with CRB …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R28	Broader consent on Police Check Form The consents that applicants currently give on the 'Police Check Form' should be sufficiently broad to enable the requisite checks to be …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R29	Incomplete applications returned to Registered Body Incomplete or withdrawn applications should in future be returned to the Registered Body, and not to the applicant.	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R30	Overseas applicant checking Proposals should be brought forward as soon as possible to improve the checking of people from overseas who want to work with …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
R31	Additional database access for CRB As a priority, legislation should be brought forward to enable the CRB to access the following additional databases for the purpose of …	Bichard Inquiry (2004)	Accepted
ICL-1	Replace Buried Metallic LPG Pipes An urgent programme of replacement of buried metallic LPG pipework with polyethylene piping should be implemented.	ICL Inquiry (2009)	Accepted
ICL-2	New LPG Safety Regime A new safety regime should be put in place governing the installation, maintenance, monitoring and replacement of all LPG systems.	ICL Inquiry (2009)	Accepted
ICL-5	Polyethylene Piping Research Research into the safety of polyethylene piping should be conducted to ensure long-term reliability.	ICL Inquiry (2009)	Accepted
ICL-6	LPG Safety Communications There should be prompt and effective communication between all interested parties of all technical developments in matters of LPG safety.	ICL Inquiry (2009)	Accepted
ICL-7	Legal Responsibility Awareness Awareness of legal responsibilities should be raised among LPG suppliers and consumers.	ICL Inquiry (2009)	Accepted
PENROSE-1	HCV Testing for Pre-1991 Transfusion Recipients The Scottish Government takes all reasonable steps to offer an HCV test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before …	Penrose Inquiry (2015)	Accepted
R1	HEI ward closure powers Scottish Government should ensure that the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) has the power to close a ward to new admissions if the …	Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
R2	HAI implementation strategy Scottish Government should ensure that policies and guidance on healthcare associated infection are accompanied by an implementation strategy and that implementation is …	Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)	Accepted
R3	IPC policy review Health Boards should ensure that infection prevention and control policies are reviewed promptly in response to any new policies or guidance issued …	Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)	Accepted

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