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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
MAI-48	Statutory powers for witness attendance at inquiries It is recommended that consideration be given to the creation of statutory powers under section 36 that can be used to prevent …	Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022)	Accepted in Part
MAI-56	Address extradition difficulties for section 35 offences It is recommended that the Home Office give consideration to addressing the difficulties in extradition in relation to an offence under section …	Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022)	Accepted in Part
MAI-57	Amend section 21 for witness interview requirements It is recommended that the Ministry of Justice give consideration to amending section 21 of the 2005 Act to include the express …	Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022)	Accepted in Part
MAI-58	Amend section 36 for pre-emptive witness enforcement It is recommended that the Ministry of Justice, possibly in conjunction with the Law Commission, give consideration to amending section 36 of …	Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022)	Accepted in Part
MAI-121	Consequences for breaching event healthcare standards The Department of Health and Social Care together with the Care Quality Commission should consider what the consequences of breaching the appropriate …	Manchester Arena Inquiry (2022)	Accepted in Part
P1-45	NPAS helicopter datalink encryption standards Steps be taken to ensure that the airborne datalink system on every NPAS helicopter observing an incident which involves one of the …	Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)	Accepted in Part
P2-25	Maintain public record of inquiry recommendations That it be made a legal requirement for the government to maintain a publicly accessible record of recommendations made by select committees, …	Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
P2-43	Require voluntary sector partnerships in contingency planning Regulation 23 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005 requires a Category 1 responder to have regard when making …	Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
POH-4	Fund legal advice for HSS claimants before scheme choice All claimants in HSS shall be entitled to obtain legal advice funded by the Department prior to choosing between accepting the Fixed …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
POH-15	Set deadline for HSS claims with guidance on late applications No claims for financial redress under HSS shall be entertained after midnight 27 November 2025.	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
POH-IR1-1	Allow Advisory Board to monitor individual compensation cases The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board should not be prevented from monitoring individual cases in which compensation has been or is to be …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
POH-IR1-3	Make monitoring full and fair compensation a core Board duty It must be one of the core duties of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board that it monitors whether compensation payments are full …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
POH-IR1-7	Amend Limitation Act to extend GLO deadline if needed HM Government shall bring forward as soon as possible legislation amending section 11(3)(a) of the Limitation Act 1980 to allow payments of …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
POH-IR1-8	Set agreed closing date for Horizon Shortfall Scheme applications No applications for compensation to the Horizon Shortfall Scheme shall be entertained after such date as shall be agreed by the Minister, …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
COVID-M1.2	Cabinet Office Leadership for Emergencies The UK government should: abolish the lead government department model for whole-system civil emergency preparedness and resilience; and require the Cabinet Office …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
COVID-M1.4	UK-wide Civil Emergency Strategy The UK government and devolved administrations should together introduce a UK-wide whole-system civil emergency strategy (which includes pandemics) to prevent each emergency …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
COVID-M1.8	Triennial Parliamentary Resilience Reports The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each produce and publish reports to their respective legislatures at least …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
COVID-M2.15	Parliamentary Scrutiny of Emergency Powers The UK government and devolved administrations should ensure that the draft affirmative procedure is the standard process for enacting substantial and wide-ranging …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
COVID-M2.17	Public Emergency Information Portal The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should develop an online portal for use in future civil emergencies, …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-4a	Interferon Treatment Impacts People infected with Hepatitis B or C who have received a course of treatment with or based on interferon should be recognised …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-4b	Special Category Mechanism The Government reconsider whether to maintain its rejection in February 2025 of the recommendations of Sir Robert Francis KC and advice from …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-5a	Severe Psychological Harm The approach of the Infected Blood Psychology Service is adopted so that both a diagnosis made by a psychiatric professional and a …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-6a	Financial Loss and Care "x" be removed from the equation set out in Regulation 7.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-6b	Exceptional Loss Evidence The Cabinet Office consult on whether the evidential requirements for exceptional reduced earnings are likely to prove a barrier to people who …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-7a	Unethical Research Award Where there is evidence that an individual was the victim of unethical research practices IBCA should be authorised to make an unethical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-7b	Wider Definition of Unethical Research When considering the evidence IBCA applies the wider definition of research explained in the Infected Blood Inquiry Additional Report chapter on Unethical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-8a	Supplementary Route for Affected Persons The Minister give consideration to there being a supplementary route for people affected. This could include opening the supplemental award for severe …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4a(iv)	Individual Duty of Candour for Leaders Statutory duty of candour: The statutory duties of candour in England, Scotland, Wales (and Northern Ireland, when introduced) should be extended to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4a(v)	Leadership Accountability for Safety Statutory duty of candour: Individuals in leadership positions should be required by the terms of their appointment and by secondary legislation to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4b	Organisational Culture Change Cultural Change: That a culture of defensiveness, lack of openness, failure to be forthcoming, and being dismissive of concerns about patient safety …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5a	Civil Service Statutory Duty of Candour The Government should reconsider whether, in the light of the facts revealed by this Inquiry, it is sufficient to continue to rely …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5b	Monitoring Non-Statutory Duties If, on review, the Government considers that it is sufficient to rely on the current non-statutory duties in the Civil Service Code, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5c	Ministerial Duty of Candour The Government should consider the extent to which Ministers should be subject to a duty beyond their current duty to Parliament under …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-6a(ii)	Specialist Hepatology Centre Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have fibrosis …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-6a(v)	Consultant Hepatologist Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have had …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7a(i)	Transfusion Committees and Tranexamic Acid - England In England, Hospital Transfusion Committees and transfusion practitioners take steps to ensure that consideration of tranexamic acid be on every hospital surgical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7c	Transfusion Laboratory Staffing Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7d	Training in Transfusion Medicine Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7e	Implementing SHOT Reports Implementing SHOT reports: That all NHS organisations across the UK have a mechanism in place for implementing recommendations of Serious Hazard of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7f(iii)	Blood Tracking Systems Funding Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-10a(iv)	Thalassaemia Society Support Particular consideration be given, together with the UK Thalassaemia Society and the Sickle Cell Society, to how the needs of patients with …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11a	Ministerial Power to Call Inquiries That a minister should retain the power to call an inquiry as the minister sees fit, in accordance with the Inquiries Act …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11b	Parliamentary Referral to PACAC If there is sufficient support from within Parliament for there to be an inquiry, the question whether there should be one should …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11c	PACAC Recommendation Power If it appears to PACAC that there is sufficient concern to justify a public inquiry, either because what happened and why has …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11d	Ministerial Reasons for Disagreement If the minister disagrees with the recommendation, they must set out in detail and publish reasons for this disagreement which are sufficient …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12d	PACAC Oversight of Implementation The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (“PACAC”) should review both the progress towards responding to the Inquiry’s recommendations and, to the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12e	PACAC Role for Future Inquiries PACAC should accept the role in respect of any future statutory inquiry of reviewing the government’s timetable for consideration of recommendations, and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
FR-12	Pre-screening by Internet Providers The Inquiry recommends that the UK government makes it mandatory for all regulated providers of search services and user-to-user services to pre-screen …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-20	Age Verification Online The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its The Internet Investigation Report, dated March 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation requiring …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
L1	Independent Board Governance An independent self regulatory body should be governed by an independent Board. In order to ensure the independence of the body, the …	Leveson Inquiry (2012)	Accepted in Part

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