Recommendation P2-25: Maintain public record of inquiry recommendations
From Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 2 Report, published 4 September 2024.
Recommendation
We recommend that it be made a legal requirement for the government to maintain a publicly accessible record of recommendations made by select committees, coroners and public inquiries together with a description of the steps taken in response. If the government decides not to accept a recommendation, it should record its reasons for doing so. Scrutiny of its actions should be a matter for Parliament, to which it should be required to report annually. (113.40)
In brief (written by this site)
In September 2026, Baroness Blake of Leeds stated that the government had delivered the Inquiry's recommendation on transparency through new dashboards that publicly track progress across inquiries (Baroness Blake of Leeds, Sep 2026). The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government previously reported in February 2026 that the recommendation was complete and had been fully discharged after launching quarterly dashboards on GOV.UK covering several inquiries (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Feb 2026). The department added that it would continue to review the need for legislation while maintaining and improving the dashboards (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Feb 2026).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
The government accepts this recommendation in principle. We will establish a record on GOV.UK of all recommendations made by public inquiries since 2024, and will consider making this an enduring legal requirement. The government agrees that scrutiny of its actions is a matter for Parliament, and ministers will commit to updating Parliament on progress for implementing inquiry recommendations. The government notes the recommendation of the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee to establish a new committee of Parliament to improve scrutiny of government’s response to inquiry recommendations. The judiciary already maintains a publicly accessible record of Prevention of Future Deaths reports made by coroners, and the government is working with the Chief Coroner to improve their transparency and availability, as well as to improve accountability for responses to them.
How this response relates to the recommendation
Site note: This is the government's response to the Phase 2 report (CP 1248, published 26 February 2025). It prints each recommendation and then the response to it. Where the recommendation is addressed to a body outside government, the response prints that body's own acceptance (the Architects Registration Board and RIBA, HMICFRS, London Fire Brigade, the National Fire Chiefs Council, the British Standards Institution, the National Police Chiefs' Council), and the row is filed under that body.
Delivery
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government says completed (10 September 2026)
The government recognises that lasting change requires sustained transparency and oversight. We have delivered the Inquiry’s recommendation on transparency through our new dashboards which publicly track progress to deliver accepted recommendations across inquiries, alongside our regular progress reports on Grenfell implementation.
From: Grenfell Tower inquiry Phase 2 Government Progress Report
Site note: Written statement HCWS331, made in the House of Commons on 10 September 2026 by Florence Eshalomi, Minister for Homelessness, Democracy, Communities and Faith, for the Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Resilience (Baroness Blake of Leeds), whose statement it is. The statement does not number the recommendation. Recommendation 25 asks for a legal requirement on the government to maintain a publicly accessible record of recommendations made by select committees, coroners and public inquiries; the passage names the government's dashboards.
Earlier statement on delivery (1)
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (25 February 2026)
We have created a publicly accessible record on GOV.UK of inquiry recommendations and the government’s responses.
In our May progress report, we announced plans to publish the dashboards to record recommendations from public inquiries since 2024. The first dashboards, covering Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower and the Infected Blood Inquiry recommendations, were launched in the summer. By September, we confirmed that the dashboards would be expanded and updated regularly.
At the end of 2025, the dashboards also included the Manchester Arena and COVID‑19 Inquiries, with updates to the dashboards happening on a quarterly basis.
We will continue to review the need for legislation while maintaining and improving the dashboards to support transparency and public scrutiny.
The recommendation is now complete and has been fully discharged.
Site note: This is the annex of the government's Phase 2 annual report (CP 1512, published 25 February 2026) as GOV.UK publishes it, one page per theme: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's account. Where the passage describes work by another body, such as the National Fire Chiefs Council, London Fire Brigade, the British Standards Institution, the Health and Safety Executive or the Cabinet Office, it is the report's account of that body's progress, and the row is filed under the Ministry. The status is what the passage says: completed only where it says the recommendation is complete or closed.
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Who has spoken
- UK Government
Response - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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