Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they propose to issue suggested timescales to all future independent committees of inquiry.

I refer the noble Lord to the Inquiries Act 2005 Explanatory Notes which state ‘In some cases it might be appropriate to specify a date by which the inquiry is asked to report, or the level of urgency.’ A decision on whether to publish an interim Report will normally be a matter for the independent Chair or would have been established at the outset.