Public inquiries
This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on public inquiries. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.
Standard Notes
| 15.11.2011 | Investigatory inquiries and the Inquiries Act 2005 |
| The 2005 Act provides a statutory framework for inquiries into matters of public concern, but there are alternative ways of establishing inquiries of this nature. The various forms of inquiry are examined in this note. |
Early Day Motions
| 07.09.2010 | CLAUDY BOMBING |
| That this House notes the recent Policing Ombudsman's report into the Claudy bombing in 1972 and the disturbing references in that report to collusion between the then Secretary of ... |
| 17.03.2009 | ARCHER INQUIRY INTO CONTAMINATED BLOOD AND BLOOD PRODUCTS |
| That this House congratulates Lord Archer on his Independent Public Inquiry into Contaminated Blood and Blood Products; welcomes his recommendations on forms of relief for the haemophilia ... |
| 16.03.2009 | INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO IRAQ WAR |
| That this House believes the invasion of Iraq was a serious foreign policy error that has destabilised the Middle East; notes that public opinion is strongly in favour of a full public ... |
| 03.03.2009 | ARCHER REPORT INTO CONTAMINATED BLOOD AND BLOOD PRODUCTS |
| That this House welcomes the publication of the Archer Report on the use of contaminated blood and blood products in NHS treatments and hopes that the victims of the use of such products ... |
| 18.03.2008 | IRAQ WAR INQUIRY |
| That this House believes that, as it has been five years since the start of the Iraq war, a wide-ranging inquiry into the commencement and conduct of the conflict is long overdue and ... |
