Southport Inquiry
Inquiry into the 29 July 2024 Southport knife attack by Axel Rudakubana at a children's Taylor Swift dance class, which killed three girls: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar, and injured ten others.
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Inquiry into the 29 July 2024 Southport knife attack by Axel Rudakubana at a children's Taylor Swift dance class, which killed three girls: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar, and injured ten others. Phase 1 report published 13 April 2026, making 67 recommendations across policing, social care, education, healthcare, Prevent, weapons/online harms. Phase 2 will examine children drawn into extreme violence.
Where it stands
Public hearings have been held on 53 days, most recently on 22 October 2026. The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 was published on 13 April 2026. The most recent government response on the record is Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry, dated 2 July 2026.
Reports & recommendations
All 67 recommendations →Government response
Latest statement by addressee
"No statement found" means none was found in the sources searched, last checked 2 July 2026. Each figure is the latest statement from the body the recommendation is addressed to. Other bodies’ findings are shown on each recommendation and do not change these figures.
About the blanket government response
The government's response to Phase 1 (CP 1623, 2 July 2026) agreed with all 67 recommendations in one sentence, and names only 39 of them individually. Where a recommendation is not named, the response shown is the passage the response gives for the group it belongs to (the recommendations for organisations outside central government, or the recommendations to policing bodies), which is not a response to that recommendation alone; the response does not list the members of any group. The 10 recommendations for Phase 2 of the Inquiry to consider show no response: the response introduces them (paragraph 20) but answers none of them. The government accepts the recommendations that are for central government to deliver. Where a recommendation is for an organisation outside central government, the government's agreement is not that organisation's acceptance.
How to read this
Government Response tracks what the government said it would do (accepted, rejected, etc.).
Latest evidence
All 1110 documents →Costs
The Southport Inquiry Financial Report, 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
Source and qualifications
Accounting period: 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026.
The Southport Inquiry Financial Report, 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026