Public Inquiries
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of each ongoing (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory public inquiry, including the year it was established.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds
The table below sets out the list of open statutory and non-statutory inquiries and the year in which they were established. This includes inquiries that have published but not yet closed. The table does not include public inquiries which have been announced but have not yet been formally established, namely inquiries into events at Orgreave, the death of Patrick Finucane and the Independent Commission on Grooming Gangs.
Year established | Inquiry | Statutory or non-statutory |
2025 | Nottingham Inquiry | Statutory |
2025 | Independent inquiry into Manston short-term holding facility / Manston Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2025 | Southport Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Jalal Uddin Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Cranston Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2023 | Andrew Malkinson Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2023 | Thirlwall Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh bombing | Statutory |
2022 | Independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan | Statutory |
2022 | Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Statutory |
2022 | Fuller Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2022 | Angiolini Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2022 | UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Statutory |
2021 | Lampard Inquiry | Statutory |
2020 | Post Office Horizon IT inquiry | Statutory |
2017 | Infected Blood Inquiry | Statutory |
2015 | Undercover Policing Inquiry | Statutory |
2004 | Robert Hamill Inquiry | Statutory |
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