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Distress

2 recommendations 100% accepted

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Government Response
Accepted (2)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 2 inquiries

Across 2 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

2 total
CR8 Accepted Cranston Inquiry

Survivability advice to persons in distress

HM Coastguard should amend its existing policies to incorporate the need to provide more comprehensive advice about survivability to people in distress at sea.

Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.
HM Coastguard
L50 Accepted Leveson Inquiry

Compensation for Distress

It should be made clear that the right to compensation for distress conferred by section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998 is not restricted to cases of pecuniary loss, …

- Section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998, which had been interpreted as requiring pecuniary loss for compensation claims, was repealed when the Data …
UK Government