The Government accepts the principles behind recommendations 12d) and 12e), and notes that they are for Parliament to consider. Alongside the UK Government's response to the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee report, the UK Government is actively considering where there is scope for wider reforms to the frameworks within which inquiries are set up, run and concluded. As part of this, the UK Government will also examine how best to ensure more effective transparency and accountability around the response to inquiry recommendations and the implementation of those which are accepted. The Government will update Parliament as this work progresses.

Next Steps

As progress continues to be made against the Inquiry’s recommendations, the relevant government leads will report on the recommendations for which they are responsible. We are committed to transparency and accountability, and will be publishing the Government’s progress via a publicly accessible dashboard in due course, which will be regularly updated as progress is made.