Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 96289
Bernard Lodge Inquiry
Tabled: 2 December 2025
Answered: 10 December 2025
Question
Simon Hoare
Conservative — North Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the official set up date under section 5 of the Inquiries Act 2005 was for the public inquiry entitled Inquiry into the circumstances of the Death of Bernard Lodge at Manchester Prison on 28 August 1998.
Answer
Jake RichardsThe Bernard Lodge inquiry was commissioned initially as an ad hoc investigation with no statutory powers. The investigation was converted to a statutory inquiry under section 15 of the Inquiries Act 2005 on 23 February 2009.