Legislation

Recommendations related to Legislation

40

Recommendations

52% accepted

Government Response

Accepted (11)Accepted in part (10)Not accepted (3)Under consideration (6)Noted (5)No response yet (5)

Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 16 inquiries

Across 16 inquiries

Angiolini Inquiry Bichard Inquiry COVID-19 Inquiry Cranston Inquiry Daniel Morgan Panel Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Hyponatraemia Inquiry IICSA Jermaine Baker Inquiry Leveson Inquiry Manchester Arena Inquiry Mid Staffs Inquiry Muckamore Abbey Inquiry Post Office Horizon Inquiry RHI Inquiry Ronan Point Inquiry

Tagged Recommendations

40 total

POH-IR1-7 Accepted in part

Post Office Horizon Inquiry

Legislate to allow GLOS compensation payments after 7 August 2024 if necessary

HM Government shall bring forward and use its best endeavours to ensure that legislation is enacted so as to allow payments of compensation under GLOS to be made to applicants …

Department for Business …

COVID-M2.15 Accepted in part

COVID-19 Inquiry

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 powers in a civil emergency, such as a …

COVID-M2.7 Not accepted

COVID-19 Inquiry

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 should consider an equivalent provision.

R104 No response yet

Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Statutory duty of candour

A statutory duty of candour should now be enacted in Northern Ireland so that: (i) Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be open and honest in all …

Department of Health NI

R105 No response yet

Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Reverse burden for organisational failure to prevent harm

Consideration should be given to a different approach to the prosecution of organisations for failing to prevent deliberate harm being caused by their employees, such as by applying a reverse …

Department of Health NI

R61 No response yet

Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Statutory adult safeguarding function

Vulnerable children and adults are inherently more susceptible to abuse or neglect than other people. Adult safeguarding should be formally recognised as a statutory function, equivalent to child protection.

Department of Health NI

CR11 Under consideration

Cranston Inquiry

Coastguard role in legislation

The role and functions of HM Coastguard should be set out in up-to-date legislation.

Department for Transport

Angiolini Inquiry

Fundamental review of masturbatory indecent exposure treatment

With immediate effect, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council should work together to conduct a fundamental review of the way masturbatory indecent …

ETI-22 Under consideration

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

Civil Sanctions for Misleading Reports

Where a company, including an ALEO, knowingly submits a report or other information to local authority officials that is misleading by reason of the inclusion of false statements or the …

Scottish Government

ETI-23 Under consideration

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

Criminal Sanctions for Misleading Information

In addition to any civil liability arising from any sanction introduced in accordance with Recommendation 22, the Scottish Ministers should consider whether there is a need for a statutory criminal …

Scottish Government

ETI-24 Under consideration

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

Duty of Disclosure Legislation

The Scottish Ministers should also give consideration to the need for legislation to impose a similar duty of disclosure to that owed by policyholders to their insurers upon a company, …

Scottish Government

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Enact Protect Duty into law

A Protect Duty, as set out above, should be enacted into law by primary legislation.

MAI-111 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Establish standard for event healthcare services

The Department of Health and Social Care should establish the standard for the level of healthcare services required at events. Consideration should be given to putting that standard on a …

Department of Health and…

MAI-142 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Compel LRF attendance from Category 1 and 2 responders

The Home Office should consider empowering the leadership of local resilience forums to compel the attendance of a senior representative of its Category 1 and Category 2 responders at all …

HM Inspectorate of Const… Home Office Local Resilience Forums Fire and Rescue Services

MAI-144 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Mandatory Ambulance Liaison Officer at events

The Home Office should consider how the presence of an Ambulance Liaison Officer in appropriate circumstances may be made mandatory. This may need to be put on a statutory footing.

MAI-147 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Employer requirement to train in first aid

The Home Office should consider the introduction of a requirement into law, for example through regulations issued under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, that employers train …

MAI-149 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Healthcare provision under Protect Duty

The Home Office should consider whether the requirement for adequate healthcare provision at events is a topic that should also be addressed by the Protect Duty.

MAI-89 Accepted

Manchester Arena Inquiry

CQC regulation of event healthcare standards

That standard needs to be regulated and enforced. The Care Quality Commission is the appropriate body to provide regulation and enforcement. The Department of Health and Social Care should give …

Department of Health and…

MAI-48 Accepted in part

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Statutory powers for witness attendance at inquiries

I also recommend that consideration be given to the creation of statutory powers under section 36 that can be used to prevent a material witness to an inquiry putting themselves …

MAI-58 Accepted in part

Manchester Arena Inquiry

Amend section 36 for pre-emptive witness enforcement

I recommend that the Ministry of Justice, possibly in conjunction with the Law Commission, give consideration to amending section 36 of the 2005 Act to make provision for issuing pre-emptive …

Clarify Compensation Act on apologies

The government should introduce legislation revising the Compensation Act 2006 to clarify that section 2 facilitates apologies or offers of treatment or other redress to victims and survivors of child …

Mandatory aggravating factor for CSE offences

The government should amend the Sentencing Act 2020 to provide a mandatory aggravating factor in sentencing in the case of the commission of an offence under Part 1 of the …

FR-13 Accepted in part

Mandatory Reporting

The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and Welsh Government introduce legislation which places certain individuals - 'mandated reporters' - under a statutory duty to report child sexual abuse where …

FR-6 Accepted in part

Amend Children Act 1989

The Inquiry recommends that the UK government amends the Children Act 1989 so that, in any case where a court is satisfied that there is reasonable cause to believe that …

Jermaine Baker Inquiry

IOPC power to require management action below misconduct threshold

The IOPC should be provided with the power to require a force to take 'management action' in situations that fall short of misconduct but where standards of conduct and/or performance …

Jermaine Baker Inquiry

Simple misconduct allegations to survive officer resignation

Serious consideration should be given to the public interest in amending the current legislation so that allegations of 'simple' misconduct, as distinct from 'gross' misconduct, will survive following a police …

DM-10 Not accepted

Daniel Morgan Panel

Custodial sentences for data protection offences

Given the potential seriousness of such offences, it is recommended that the Government take an early opportunity to amend the Data Protection Act 2018 to provide for sentences of imprisonment …

DM-17 Under consideration

Daniel Morgan Panel

Statutory duty of candour for law enforcement

The Panel recommends the creation of a statutory duty of candour, to be owed by all law enforcement agencies to those whom they serve, subject to protection of national security …

DM-9 Under consideration

Daniel Morgan Panel

Regulation of private investigators

The Government should act on its stated intention in 2013 to require licensing measures, introduce legislation to ensure the creation and use of standards, and implement the recommendation in the …

RHI-39 Accepted

Ministerial Familiarity with Legislation

Any Minister presenting the Assembly with legislation for approval should sufficiently read and familiarise themselves with that legislation and ensure an adequate evidence base is publicly available to demonstrate that …

Northern Ireland Executi…

IHRD-1 Accepted

Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Statutory Duty of Candour

A statutory duty of candour should now be enacted in Northern Ireland so that: (i) Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be open and honest in all …

Northern Ireland Executi…

F168 Accepted in part

Mid Staffs Inquiry

Approved Practice Settings

The Department of Health and the General Medical Council should consider making the necessary statutory (and regulatory changes) to incorporate the approved practice settings scheme into the regulatory framework for …

Department of Health and…

F181 Accepted in part

Mid Staffs Inquiry

Enforcement of the duty Statutory duties of candour in relation to harm to patients

A statutory obligation should be imposed to observe a duty of candour: On healthcare providers who believe or suspect that treatment or care provided by it to a patient has …

Department of Health and…

F33 Accepted in part

Mid Staffs Inquiry

Interim measures

Insofar as healthcare regulators consider they do not possess any necessary interim powers, the Department of Health should consider introduction of the necessary amendments to legislation to provide such powers.

Department of Health and…

L27 Accepted in part

Leveson Inquiry

Legislative Recognition Requirements

In order to meet the public concern that the organisation by the press of its regulation is by a body which is independent of the press, independent of Parliament and …

L33 Not accepted

Leveson Inquiry

Duty to Protect Press Freedom

In passing legislation to identify the legitimate requirements to be met by an independent regulator organised by the press, and to provide for a process of recognition and review of …

Leveson Inquiry

Repeal Procedural Provisions

The procedural provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 with special application to journalism in: (a) section 32(4) and (5) (b) sections 44 to 46 inclusive should be repealed.

L71 No response yet

Leveson Inquiry

Aggravated and Exemplary Damages

The Report of the Law Commission on Aggravated, Exemplary and Restitutionary Damages should be adopted in relation to its recommendations that legislation should provide that: (a) aggravated damages should only …

Bichard Inquiry

Additional database access for CRB

As a priority, legislation should be brought forward to enable the CRB to access the following additional databases for the purpose of vetting: Her Majesty's Customs & Excise; National Criminal …

RONA-20 Historic

Ronan Point Inquiry

Statutory notification and inspection of gas appliance installations

In order to reduce the risk of town gas explosions still further, consideration should be given to a statutory requirement, based on the provisions of the London Gas Undertakings (Regulations) …