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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
POH-IR1-2	Publish Advisory Board meeting reports within 21 days The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board shall produce written reports in respect of each of their meetings in relation to each of the …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
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-IR1-4	Increase Advisory Board membership if needed for capacity If the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board considers it necessary, the number of persons appointed to the Board should be increased so as …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
POH-IR1-5	Seek court directions for GLO compensation in bankruptcy cases DBT shall take such steps as are necessary within 28 days of the publication of this report to seek appropriate directions under …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
POH-IR1-6	Publish proposals for equal tax treatment of compensation payments DBT shall publish within 28 days of the publication of this report its proposals for ensuring that applicants to all schemes are …	Post Office Horizon Inquiry (2023)	Accepted
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-M1.1	Simplify Emergency Preparedness Structures The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each simplify and reduce the number of structures with responsibility for …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
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-M1.3	Improved Risk Assessment Approach The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
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-M1.5	Pandemic Data Systems and Research The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.6	Triennial Pandemic Exercises The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.7	Publish Exercise Reports and Lessons For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
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-M1.9	External Red Teams for Resilience The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each introduce the use of red teams in the Civil Service …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
COVID-M1.10	Independent Statutory Resilience Body The UK government should, in consultation with the devolved administrations, create a statutory independent body for whole-system civil emergency preparedness and resilience. …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2024)	Under Consideration
COVID-M2.2	Devolved Nations SAGE Attendance The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should invite the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to nominate a small number of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.3	UK-wide Expert Register The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) should develop and maintain a register of experts across the four nations of the UK who …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
COVID-M2.4	Publish Technical Advice During Emergencies During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
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-M2.7	Statutory Child Rights Impact Assessments The UK government should introduce legislation to place child rights impact assessments on a statutory footing in England. The Northern Ireland Executive …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2025)	Under Consideration
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-M2.15	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-M2.16	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-M2.17	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
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
COVID-M3.1	IPC Structures and Transmission Risk The UK government must ensure that there is a body (equivalent to the UK Infection Prevention and Control Cell) in place ready …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.2	Visiting Restrictions Guidance The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should publish guidance for the implementation of visiting restrictions in hospitals …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.3	Fit-Testing Preparedness The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with employers, including health boards and trusts, to review …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.4	Data Systems for High-Risk Individuals The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive must ensure that health data and digital systems have the capability …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.5	Scale Up Urgent and Emergency Care The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, in conjunction with organisations responsible for delivering services, should plan for …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.6	Scale Up Hospital Capacity The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with trusts and health boards to ensure that pandemic …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.7	ICU Resource Allocation Framework The UK government and devolved administrations should publish a UK-wide framework setting out ethical and operational principles to guide the allocation of …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.8	Recording Healthcare Worker Deaths The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with their respective public health agencies and healthcare employers …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.9	Standardised Advance Care Planning The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, working with trusts and health boards, should establish and promote one …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M3.10	Healthcare Worker Support The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, working with healthcare employers and professional bodies, should put in place …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M4.1	Establish Pharmaceutical Expert Advisory Panel The UK government should establish a standing pharmaceutical expert advisory panel, in consultation with the Department of Health and Social Care and …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Response
COVID-M4.2	Formalise Community Vaccine Equity Networks The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should maintain networks with local communities to produce targeted vaccination strategies …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M4.3	Improve Vaccine Uptake Monitoring and Evaluation Each of the four UK public health or health security agencies should work together to: maintain accurate, UK-wide insight into the state …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M4.4	Proportionate Access to Linked Healthcare Records The UK government and devolved administrations should work together, with their respective health delivery services, to facilitate and coordinate regulatory bodies' access …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Published Response
COVID-M4.5	Reform Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme The UK government must reform the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme as soon as possible. The reform should include as a minimum: increasing …	COVID-19 Inquiry (2026)	No Response
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

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