Transparency

Recommendations related to transparency

83
Recommendations
86% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (54)Accepted in Part (17)Under Review (1)Awaiting Response (11)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 16 inquiries

Across 16 inquiries
Anthony Grainger Inquiry COVID-19 Inquiry Cranston Inquiry Daniel Morgan Panel Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Fuller Inquiry Grenfell Tower Inquiry Hyponatraemia Inquiry Infected Blood Inquiry Leveson Inquiry Mid Staffs Inquiry Morecambe Bay Investigation Muckamore Abbey Inquiry Paterson Inquiry Post Office Horizon Inquiry RHI Inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
83 total
POH-IR1-2 Accepted
Post Office Horizon Inquiry
Publish Advisory Board meeting reports within 21 days
The Horizon Compensation Advisory Board shall produce written reports in respect of each of their meetings in relation to each of the 3 schemes and publish the same within 21 …
- The Department for Business and Trade accepted this recommendation on 21 September 2023, confirming written reports were already being published and would be issued …
Department for Business …
COVID-M1.7 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Publish Exercise Reports and Lessons
For all civil emergency exercises, the governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each (unless there are reasons of national security for not doing so): publish an …
- The available evidence indicates that implementation is in progress. Exercise Pegasus evaluation was under way and both the Scottish and UK reports were due …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M1.8 Accepted in Part
COVID-19 Inquiry
Triennial Parliamentary Resilience Reports
The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each produce and publish reports to their respective legislatures at least every three years on whole-system civil emergency preparedness …
- The available official evidence indicates that this recommendation has been implemented. Both the UK and Scottish Governments recorded their actions as delivered or closed, …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M2.4 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Publish Technical Advice During Emergencies
During a whole-system civil emergency, the UK government and devolved administrations should each routinely publish technical advice on scientific, economic and social matters at the earliest opportunity, as well as …
- The UK government stated in its Module 2 response (25 March 2026) that it agrees with the importance of publishing technical advice during emergencies …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M5.10 No Published Response
COVID-19 Inquiry
Transparency, Governance and Accountability in Emergencies
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should improve transparency, governance and accountability for procurement in an emergency. As a minimum, these improvements should include the …
- An implementation status cannot yet be assessed. No government response or recommendation-specific delivery evidence was located by 23 July 2026, so the absence of …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M5.11 No Published Response
COVID-19 Inquiry
Data and Technology in Emergency Procurement
Within three years of the publication of this Report, the systems for the procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment should be digitalised and interoperable across the UK government and devolved …
- An implementation status cannot yet be assessed. No government response or recommendation-specific delivery evidence was located by 23 July 2026, so the absence of …
Department of Health and…
R103 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Public learning disability performance dashboard within 12 months
A live dashboard of performance, quality and safety indicators within learning disabilities must be developed and made publicly available within 12 months of the publication of this report.
Department of Health NI
R104 Response Pending
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
R2 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Public acceptance of recommendations within six months
The DoH should indicate publicly within six months of this report which recommendations it accepts and those it does not accept (and why). This should include the recommendations for all …
Department of Health NI
R26 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Six-monthly financial accounts to families
Information about the use of cash and other property and six-monthly accounts (or such period as appropriate upon discharge of the person) should be available to the service user concerned …
Northern Ireland Executi…
R41 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Inform complainants of complaint management process
Complainants should immediately be informed of how their complaint will be managed (locally or through the corporate complaints process) along with a clear explanation of the corresponding level of investigation …
Northern Ireland Executi…
R47 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Quarterly family feedback via external agency
The provider should actively seek family or carer feedback on the service user’s experience on a quarterly basis via an external agency and report the findings to the public part …
Northern Ireland Executi…
R62 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Monthly safeguarding dashboard
Metrics on both child and adult safeguarding processes should be reported monthly via a safeguarding dashboard, with the same visibility and status as monitoring elective surgery or emergency department waiting …
Northern Ireland Executi…
R92 Response Pending
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry
Time frame and financial information for families
Families should be provided by the relevant Trust with a time frame for resettlement and relevant financial information. Families should also be afforded an appropriate amount of time to consider …
Northern Ireland Executi…
CR18 Response Pending
Cranston Inquiry
MAIB publication of implementation measures
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch should make publicly available on its website, as soon as possible after they are received, the details of implementation measures taken by those to whom …
Marine Accident Investig…
P2-63 Under Consideration
Fuller Inquiry
Mandatory information from funeral directors
The standards should include details of mandatory information to be given to customers by funeral directors to provide transparency about the care of the deceased, including information on measures to …
- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on DBS checks for funeral sector staff was under consideration. Full government response due Summer …
Department of Health and…
P2-14 Accepted in Part
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Require test results disclosure and transparency for construction products
a) that copies of all test results supporting any certificate issued by the construction regulator be included in the certificate; b) that manufacturers be required to provide the construction regulator …
- The government accepted this recommendation in principle in February 2025 (Government Response to Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report, MHCLG, February 2025). - The …
UK Government
AC-2a Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Publish Guidance and Board Minutes
IBCA should publish: guidance, advice or instructions to claim managers; work undertaken by IBCA with the Cabinet Office's policy team to ensure that IBCA understands "in depth the policy intent …
- The Government stated in July 2025 that further detail on IBCA delivery recommendations would be set out by IBCA in due course (Infected Blood …
IBCA
AC-2b Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Share Clinical Assessor Advice
In respect of any case in which the advice of a clinical assessor has been given, in relation to the person concerned (and no more widely except with the consent …
- The Government stated in July 2025 that further detail on IBCA delivery recommendations would be set out by IBCA in due course (Infected Blood …
IBCA
AC-2d Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Structured Response to Community Input
To build confidence that IBCA is actively listening to people infected and affected, IBCA adopt more of a structured response to contributions from people infected and affected. Consideration should be …
- The Government stated in July 2025 that further detail on IBCA delivery recommendations would be set out by IBCA in due course (Infected Blood …
IBCA
IBI-3c Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Inquiry Website Preservation
The Inquiry website is maintained online
- The Government stated in December 2024 that the transfer of the Inquiry website to The National Archives was underway, and that options to maintain …
UK Government
IBI-5c Accepted in Part
Infected Blood Inquiry
Ministerial Duty of Candour
The Government should consider the extent to which Ministers should be subject to a duty beyond their current duty to Parliament under the Ministerial Code.
- The Government stated in December 2024 that it would consider the extent to which Ministers should be subject to a duty beyond the Ministerial …
UK Government
ETI-12 Accepted
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
Record Keeping Requirements
For transparency, Scottish Ministers should maintain minutes documenting: discussions and decisions between Ministers and civil servants regarding publicly-funded project involvement; discussions with local authorities and contractors; and negotiations, including mediation …
- In November 2023, the Scottish Government stated that "robust and enhanced procedures regarding minute-taking and documentation management have also been embedded within the Government …
Scottish Government
ETI-4 Accepted in Part
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
Inquiry Cost Transparency
When reporting public inquiry costs, Scottish Ministers should disclose net costs to the public purse, excluding previously-incurred accommodation and staffing expenses, alongside total departmental account costs.
- In November 2023, the Scottish Government stated that guidance similar to that suggested was already in development (Transport Secretary Statement on Edinburgh Tram Inquiry …
Scottish Government
DM-16 Accepted
Daniel Morgan Panel
Duty to cooperate with independent scrutiny bodies
In the interest of transparency and public accountability, all public institutions should be under a duty to cooperate fully with independent scrutiny bodies created by Government, such as the Panel.
Home Office
DM-17 Accepted in Part
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 …
Home Office
RHI-40 Accepted
RHI Inquiry
Declaration of Interests
Ministers, Special Advisers and officials in Northern Ireland government Departments should declare their interests annually in writing. When any conflict of interest arises during the course of government business each …
- In October 2021, the NI Executive accepted this recommendation in full (NI Executive Response to RHI Inquiry, Department of Finance, October 2021). - The …
Northern Ireland Executi…
1 Accepted in Part
Paterson Inquiry
Single consultant data repository
We recommend that there should be a single repository of the whole practice of consultants across England, setting out their practising privileges and other critical consultant performance data – for …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in December 2021 that it was improving data flows to the CQC and GMC to provide …
Department of Health and…
AG-7 Accepted
Anthony Grainger Inquiry
Recording of Firearms Operations
During post incident proceedings following a police shooting, NPCC should consider the advantages of: Recordings of the communications of firearms commanders and authorised firearms officers (AFOs); And video recordings from …
National Police Chiefs C…
IHRD-10 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Age-Appropriate Hospital Settings
Health and Social Care ('HSC') Trusts should publish policy and procedure for ensuring that children and young people are cared for in age-appropriate hospital settings.
- HSC Trusts reported that children are treated in age-appropriate settings with appropriately trained staff (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March 2018). - …
Northern Ireland Executi… HSC Trusts
IHRD-37 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Family Involvement in SAI Investigations
Trusts should seek to maximise the involvement of families in SAI investigations and in particular: (i) Trusts should publish a statement of patient and family rights in relation to all …
- The Department of Health NI reported that standardised terms of reference for SAI investigations had been developed (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-41 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Publication of External Investigation Reports
Trusts should publish the reports of all external investigations, subject to considerations of patient confidentiality.
- The Department of Health NI reported that arrangements for families to provide input to SAI investigations had been strengthened (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-42 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Sharing New Investigation Information
In the event of new information emerging after finalisation of an investigation report or there being a change in conclusion, then the same should be shared promptly with families.
- The Department of Health NI reported that mechanisms for tracking implementation of SAI recommendations had been established (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-53 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Legal Privilege Disclosure to Coroner
In the event of a Trust asserting entitlement to legal privilege in respect of an expert report or other document relevant to the proceedings of an inquest, it should inform …
- HSC Trusts reported that processes for implementing recommendations arising from inquests had been formalised (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March 2018). - …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-76 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Publication of Clinical Standards
Clinical standards of care, such as patients might reasonably expect, should be published and made subject to regular audit.
- HSC Trusts reported that processes for learning from complaints had been strengthened (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March 2018). - No independent …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-81 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Board Awareness of SAI Reports
Trusts should ensure that all internal reports, reviews and related commentaries touching upon SAI related deaths within the Trust are brought to the immediate attention of every Board member.
- HSC Trusts reported that performance management frameworks had been updated to include patient safety objectives (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March 2018). …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-83 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
SAI Deaths in Annual Reports
Each Trust should publish in its Annual Report, details of every SAI related patient death occurring in its care in the preceding year and particularise the learning gained therefrom.
- HSC Trusts reported that leadership development programmes for senior clinicians had been strengthened (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March 2018). - No …
HSC Trusts
IHRD-95 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Legal Privilege Protocol
Given that the public is entitled to expect appropriate transparency from a publically funded service, the Department should bring forward protocol governing how and when legal privilege entitlement might properly …
- The Department of Health NI reported that guidance on legal professional privilege in the context of SAI investigations had been reviewed (IHRD Implementation Programme, …
Department of Health NI
25 Accepted
Morecambe Bay Investigation
Duty to report external investigation findings
We recommend that a duty should be placed on all NHS Boards to report openly the findings of any external investigation into clinical services, governance or other aspects of the …
- In July 2015, the government stated: "We accept these recommendations" (covering recs 25 and 42) and described existing reporting requirements and plans to extend …
Department of Health and…
F1 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Implementing the recommendations
It is recommended that: All commissioning, service provision regulatory and ancillary organisations in healthcare should consider the findings and recommendations of this report and decide how to apply them to …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in November 2013 that it had responded to all 290 recommendations in the report "Hard Truths: …
Department of Health and…
F102 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Transparency use and sharing of information
Data held by the National Patient Safety Agency or its successor should be open to analysis for a particular purpose, or others facilitated in that task.
- In April 2025, DHSC and NHS England stated that incident data is open to analysis via the LFPSE service, which includes an online service …
NHS England
F106 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Health Protection Agency Coordination and publication of providers' information on healthcare associated infections
The Health Protection Agency and its successor, should coordinate the collection, analysis and publication of information on each provider's performance in relation to healthcare associated infections, working with the Health …
- In April 2025, DHSC and NHS England stated that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) collects and publishes data on hospital and community-acquired infections …
F109 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Effective complaints handling
Methods of registering a comment or complaint must be readily accessible and easily understood. Multiple gateways need to be provided to patients, both during their treatment and after its conclusion, …
- The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 require NHS bodies and primary care providers to publicise their complaints …
Healthcare providers
F118 Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Learning and information from complaints
Subject to anonymisation, a summary of each upheld complaint relating to patient care, in terms agreed with the complainant, and the trust's response should be published on its website. In …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that it had not taken forward the recommendation to publish summaries of every …
Healthcare providers
F14 Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
The nature of standards
In addition to the fundamental standards of service, the regulations should include generic requirements for a governance system designed to ensure compliance with fundamental standards, and the provision and publication …
- NHS England and the Care Quality Commission published new well-led guidance for NHS trusts and foundation trusts under the Single Assessment Framework in April …
CQC
F157 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Matters to be reported to the General Medical Council
The General Medical Council should set out a clear statement of what matters; deaneries are required to report to the General Medical Council either routinely or as they arise. Reports …
- The GMC stated in April 2025 that Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) and Deaneries routinely report progress against concerns, including patient safety, via …
GMC
F173 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Principles of openness transparency and candour
Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be honest, open and truthful in all their dealings with patients and the public, and organisational and personal interests must never …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that a statutory Duty of Candour was introduced in 2014 …
Healthcare providers
F175 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Candour about harm
Full and truthful answers must be given to any question reasonably asked about his or her past or intended treatment by a patient (or, if deceased, to any lawfully entitled …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the joint duty of candour guidance by the Nursing …
Healthcare providers
F176 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Openness with regulators
Any statement made to a regulator or a commissioner in the course of its statutory duties must be completely truthful and not misleading by omission.
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the statutory Duty of Candour applies to statements made …
Healthcare providers
F177 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Openness in public statements
Any public statement made by a healthcare organisation about its performance must be truthful and not misleading by omission.
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the NHS Standard contract includes requirements to ensure submissions …
Healthcare providers
F2 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Putting the patient first
The NHS and all who work for it must adopt and demonstrate a shared culture in which the patient is the priority in everything done. This requires: A common set …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the NHS Constitution sets out six core values, including …
NHS
F21 Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The regulator should have a duty to monitor the accuracy of information disseminated by providers and commissioners on compliance with standards and their compliance with the requirement of honest disclosure. …
- The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 introduced a statutory duty of candour for NHS bodies (The Health and Social …
CQC
F24 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
Compliance with regulatory fundamental standards must be capable so far as possible of being assessed by measures which are understood and accepted by the public and healthcare professionals.
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the CQC assessment approach links back to fundamental standards …
CQC
F246 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Comparable quality accounts
Department of Health/the NHS Commissioning Board/regulators should ensure that provider organisations publish in their annual quality accounts information in a common form to enable comparisons to be made between organisations, …
- NHS healthcare providers are required under the Health Act 2009 and the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010 to publish annual reports on …
Department of Health and…
F247 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Accountability for quality accounts
Healthcare providers should be required to lodge their quality accounts with all organisations commissioning services from them, Local Healthwatch, and all systems regulators.
- The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010 require Quality Accounts to be published by 30 June each year and submitted to NHS England …
Healthcare providers
F251 Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Regulatory oversight of quality accounts
The Care Quality Commission and/or Monitor should keep the accuracy, fairness and balance of quality accounts under review and should be enabled to require corrections to be issued where appropriate. …
- Section 9 of the Health Act 2009 requires providers to republish Quality Accounts with corrections within 21 days if notified of an error by …
CQC
F253 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Access to quality and risk profile
The information behind the quality and risk profile – as well as the ratings and methodology – should be placed in the public domain, as far as is consistent with …
- The Care Quality Commission (CQC) began a phased rollout of a new Single Assessment Framework in November 2023 and continues to publish inspection reports …
CQC
F254 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Access for public and patient comments
While there are likely to be many different gateways offered through which patient and public comments can be made, to avoid confusion, it would be helpful for there to be …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the Friends and Family Test (FFT) has been rolled …
NHS England
F255 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Using patient feedback
Results and analysis of patient feedback including qualitative information need to be made available to all stakeholders in as near "real time" as possible, even if later adjustments have to …
- NHS England stated in April 2025 that results of the Friends and Family Test are published on a monthly basis (DHSC and NHS England …
NHS England
F259 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Role of the Health and Social Care Information Centre
The Information Centre, in consultation with the Department of Health, the NHS Commissioning Board and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, should develop a means of publishing more detailed breakdowns …
- NHS England publishes annual data on written complaints made by or on behalf of patients for both primary and secondary care (DHSC and NHS …
F262 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
All healthcare provider organisations, in conjunction with their healthcare professionals, should develop and maintain systems which give them: Effective real-time information on the performance of each of their services against …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that the Federated Data Platform, Consultant Outcomes Publication, and National Consultant Information Programme …
Healthcare providers
F265 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
The Department of Health, the Information Centre and the Care Quality Commission should engage with each representative specialty organisation in order to consider how best to develop comparative statistics on …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that the NHS Standard Contract requires providers to publish services in the e-Referral …
Department of Health and…
F266 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
In designing the methodology for such statistics and their presentation, the Department of Health, the Information Centre, the Care Quality Commission and the specialty organisations should seek and have regard …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that NHS England conducts public consultations on statistical reports and proposed changes to …
Department of Health and…
F267 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
All such statistics should be made available online and accessible through provider websites, as well as other gateways such as the Care Quality Commission.
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that patient outcome statistics are available via NHS Digital, CQC inspection reports, and …
Healthcare providers
F273 Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Information to coroners
The terms of authorisation, licensing and registration and any relevant guidance should oblige healthcare providers to provide all relevant information to enable the coroner to perform his function, unless a …
- Schedule 5 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 confers power on coroners to order the disclosure of evidence, including written statements and documents …
Healthcare providers
F286 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Impact assessments before structural change
Impact and risk assessments should be made public, and debated publicly, before a proposal for any major structural change to the healthcare system is accepted. Such assessments should cover at …
- DHSC and NHS England stated in April 2025 that an impact assessment was conducted for the Health and Care Act 2022 (DHSC and NHS …
Department of Health and…
F290 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Experience on the front line
The Department of Health should promote a shared positive culture by setting an example in its statements by being open about deficiencies, ensuring those harmed have a remedy, and making …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that transparency measures include a statutory duty of candour, a national learning from …
Department of Health and…
F36 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Use of information for effective regulation
A coordinated collection of accurate information about the performance of organisations must be available to providers, commissioners, regulators and the public, in as near real time as possible, and should …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that multiple coordinated data collections exist, including the Model Hospital …
CQC
F37 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Use of information about compliance by regulator from: Quality accounts
Trust Boards should provide, through quality accounts, and in a nationally consistent format, full and accurate information about their compliance with each standard which applies to them. To the extent …
- Section 92 of the Care Act 2014 established a criminal offence for care providers who supply, publish, or make available false or misleading information …
NHS Trusts
F57 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Care Quality Commission independence strategy and culture
The Care Quality Commission should undertake a formal evaluation of how it would detect and take action on the warning signs and other events giving cause for concern at the …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that an evaluation of the Care Quality Commission's approach was conducted by Manchester …
CQC
F63 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Improved transparency
Monitor should publish all side letters and any rating issued to trusts as part of their authorisation or licence.
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the policy position has changed and no further Foundation …
Monitor
F70 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Duty of utmost good faith
A duty of utmost good faith should be imposed on applicants for foundation trust status to disclose to the regulator any significant information material to the application and to ensure …
- The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England stated in April 2025 that the policy position has changed and no further Foundation …
Monitor
F96 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Information sharing
The NHS Litigation Authority should make more prominent in its publicity an explanation comprehensible to the general public of the limitations of its standards assessments and of the reliance which …
- The Department of Health and Social Care stated in April 2025 that the NHS Litigation Authority previously included an explanation of the limitations of …
L20 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
Compliance Record Keeping
The Board should have both the power and a duty to ensure that all breaches of the standards code that it considers are recorded as such and that proper data …
- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principles for independent self-regulation including record-keeping (Oral Statement to Parliament, Prime Minister's …
Press
L21 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
Annual Report Requirements
The Board should publish an Annual Report identifying: (a) the body's subscribers, identifying any significant changes in subscriber numbers; (b) the number of complaints it has handled and the outcomes …
- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principles for independent self-regulation including annual reporting (Oral Statement to Parliament, Prime …
Press
L45 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
Source Transparency
A new regulatory body should consider encouraging the press to be as transparent as possible in relation to the sources used for stories, including providing any information that would help …
- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principles for independent self-regulation (Oral Statement to Parliament, Prime Minister's Office, 29 …
Press
L62 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
ICO Annual Report on Press
The Information Commissioner's Office, in the Annual Report to Parliament which it is required to make by virtue of section 52(1) of the Act, should include regular updates on the …
- The ICO publishes an Annual Report to Parliament each year as required by the Data Protection Act 2018 (ICO Annual Reports, ico.org.uk). - The …
Information Commissioner
L76 Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
ACPO Media Contact Recording
It should be mandatory for ACPO rank officers to record all of their contact with the media, and for that record to be available publicly for transparency and audit purposes. …
- The College of Policing Authorised Professional Practice on media relations requires chief officers to record contacts with the media and for these records to …
Police National Police Chiefs C…
L82 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
Party Policy on Press Relations
As a first step, political leaders should reflect constructively on the merits of publishing on behalf of their party a statement setting out, for the public, an explanation of the …
- The UK Government publishes quarterly ministerial transparency data including details of meetings with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives (GOV.UK, Ministers' …
Politicians
L83 Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
Disclosure of Media Contacts
Party Leaders, Ministers and Front Bench Opposition spokesmen should consider publishing: (a) the simple fact of long term relationships with media proprietors, newspaper editors or senior executives which might be …
- The UK Government publishes quarterly ministerial transparency data including details of meetings between ministers and media proprietors, newspaper editors and senior media executives (GOV.UK, …
Politicians
L84 Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
Immediate Transparency Need
The suggestions that I have made in the direction of greater transparency about meetings and contacts should be considered not just as a future project but as an immediate need, …
- The UK Government has published quarterly ministerial transparency data continuously since 2010, including details of meetings with media proprietors, editors and senior executives (GOV.UK, …
Politicians
L9 Accepted in Part
Leveson Inquiry
Internal Governance Processes
The Board should require, of those who subscribe, appropriate internal governance processes, transparency on what governance processes they have in place, and notice of any failures in compliance, together with …
- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principles for independent self-regulation including internal governance requirements (Oral Statement to Parliament, …
Press
L91 Accepted
Leveson Inquiry
Media Merger Referral Consultation
Before making a decision to refer a media merger to the competition authorities on public interest grounds, the Secretary of State should consult relevant parties as to the arguments for …
- The Enterprise Act 2002, sections 42-58, require the Secretary of State to issue an intervention notice when referring a media merger on public interest …
UK Government