Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 183072

Public Bodies: Inquiries

Tabled: 27 April 2023

Answered: 3 May 2023

Named Day

Question

Steve Reed

Labour (Co-op) — Streatham and Croydon North

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total number of inquiries into public bodies in each year since 2017.

Answer

Damian Hinds

The UK Government Inquiries established in each year since 2017 are set out below. These include both non-statutory Inquiries and those established under the Inquiries Act 2005. They do not include Inquiries established by the Northern Ireland Executive or the Scottish Government.

2017	Elizabeth Dixon Investigation; Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry; Infected Blood Inquiry; Independent Inquiry into the award of the Magnox decommissioning contract by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its subsequent termination
2018	Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review; Independent Inquiry into the issues raised by Ian Paterson
2019	Brook House Inquiry; Manchester Arena Inquiry
2020	Jermaine Baker Inquiry; Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
2021	Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry
2022	Angiolini Inquiry; Dawn Sturgess Inquiry; Fuller Inquiry; UK Covid-19 Inquiry; Independent Inquiry into alleged unlawful activity by British Armed Forces during deliberate detention operations in Afghanistan
2023 to date	Inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh bombing