Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2025 to Question 62083 on House of Lords Appointments Commission, on what date the public appointments process opened; whether it has been extended; and whether any people who applied have been informed that they have not been appointed.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question 66291, which sets out when the campaign was launched and subsequently closed to applications.
The Government announced on 19 August 2025 that, as a result of the campaign, Professor Adeeba Malik CBE DL had been appointed as an independent member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission with effect from 1 September 2025. All candidates who applied as part of this campaign have been notified of the outcome accordingly.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 66291 on House of Lords Appointments Commission, for what reason members of the Commission have not been appointed.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question 66291, which sets out when the campaign was launched and subsequently closed to applications.
The Government announced on 19 August 2025 that, as a result of the campaign, Professor Adeeba Malik CBE DL had been appointed as an independent member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission with effect from 1 September 2025. All candidates who applied as part of this campaign have been notified of the outcome accordingly.
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of each ongoing (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory public inquiry, including the year it was established.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The table below sets out the list of open statutory and non-statutory inquiries and the year in which they were established. This includes inquiries that have published but not yet closed. The table does not include public inquiries which have been announced but have not yet been formally established, namely inquiries into events at Orgreave, the death of Patrick Finucane and the Independent Commission on Grooming Gangs.
Year established | Inquiry | Statutory or non-statutory |
2025 | Nottingham Inquiry | Statutory |
2025 | Independent inquiry into Manston short-term holding facility / Manston Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2025 | Southport Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Jalal Uddin Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Cranston Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2023 | Andrew Malkinson Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2023 | Thirlwall Inquiry | Statutory |
2023 | Inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh bombing | Statutory |
2022 | Independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan | Statutory |
2022 | Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Statutory |
2022 | Fuller Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2022 | Angiolini Inquiry | Non-statutory |
2022 | UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Statutory |
2021 | Lampard Inquiry | Statutory |
2020 | Post Office Horizon IT inquiry | Statutory |
2017 | Infected Blood Inquiry | Statutory |
2015 | Undercover Policing Inquiry | Statutory |
2004 | Robert Hamill Inquiry | Statutory |
Asked by: Cameron Thomas (Liberal Democrat - Tewkesbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the Honours System in terms of (a) fairness, (b) equity and (c) and value.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office Honours team is working to make the honours system truly representative of UK society, in line with the Prime Minister’s priorities for the honours system. As part of this work, we have recently established a new independent Diversity and Outreach Committee which will assist the committee process in delivering an honours system which is properly diverse and reflective of UK society.
In addition to ongoing work, every five years, a report to Parliament is published on the Operation of the UK Honours System. This report sets out progress and key developments to our work to improve the integrity and fairness in, and access to, the Honours System. The most recent report was published in May 2023 and can be viewed here. The next report is due to be published in 2028.