Member

Trevor Hicks, the first chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, who served in that role for 16 years and then as president, and Jenni Hicks, the secretary and vice-chair for 30 years, until the group was wound up in 2021, are both willing to work with the Independent Public Advocate to share the lessons they learned in helping to create and drive forward that remarkable collective endeavour. Those setting up the Hillsborough Family Support Group consulted many of those bereaved in previous disasters, such as the Zeebrugge and Lockerbie disasters, and the lessons they learned to such remarkable effect provide a legacy for those they lost. I hope that the Government will now build on that legacy by giving greater agency to those who lose loved ones in future and recognise that funding legions of lawyers is not necessarily the only way of doing that.