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

Date	Description
18.01.2013	Chilcot Inquiry: an update
	The Iraq Inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, was originally expected to have reported by now but the broad scope of the inquiry and the amount of evidence have led to delays in publication, which is now not expected until autumn 2013 at the earliest. This note provides a brief update on progress.
03.09.2012	Investigatory inquiries and the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921
	The Inquiries Act 2005 made significant changes to the system of public inquiries in the UK and is fully covered in Standard Note 06410. The subject of parliamentary inquiries is covered in Standard Note 6392 Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry. This Note looks at other types of inquiries which can be established, statutory or non-statutory, and at the predecessor to the Inquiries Act, the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 which had formed the main basis for statutory inquiries over some 80 years.
03.09.2012	The Inquiries Act 2005
	This Note explains the provisions of the Inquiries Act 2005. This Act is the main statutory basis for establishing an inquiry into matters of major current concern. The Note sets out details of each inquiry held under the Act and examines some of the procedural issues.

Early Day Motions

Date	Description
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 ...