Monitored Recommendations

Of the Recommendations I have made above, I indicate below those I propose to monitor. The numbering is not intended to indicate importance or priority.

I have grouped the Volume 2 Recommendations together thematically. The effect of this is that there are Monitored Recommendations, which comprise more than one of the Recommendations I made above. This means that some reporting organisations are only expected to report back against specific Recommendations within a Monitored Recommendation. I have identified below which organisations I expect to address each Monitored Recommendation.

As I did for Volume 1, I shall take a staged approach to monitoring the Recommendations arising out of Volume 2.

First, I will require an update as to progress from those reporting against the Monitored Recommendations. This will be due approximately three months after the publication of Volume 2. Responses will be added to the Inquiry’s website.

Second, I will require witness statements from named individuals within each reporting organisation. Each statement will be required approximately six months after the publication of Volume 2. The witness statements will be added to the Inquiry’s website.

Third, the Solicitor to the Inquiry will inform those who made the witness statements, as well as all Core Participants, which of those witnesses I intend to hear live evidence from. I will permit a brief window for submissions to be made on this.

Fourth, I will receive live evidence from those witnesses from whom I consider I should hear. I anticipate hearing that evidence during the summer of 2023.

The Solicitor to the Inquiry will contact those organisations who are the subject of the Monitored Recommendations and provide exact dates for each stage and to assist in the identification of the individual who can provide witness evidence.

As I said in Volume 1, it should be understood that I intend to scrutinise what has been done in response to the Monitored Recommendations and use all of the powers available to me, if required, to achieve transparency and accountability.