Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they propose to request that future independent committees of inquiry should issue interim reports in cases where final reports are delayed beyond a reasonable time.

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.