The Government is under mounting pressure to upgrade the public probe, which it ordered last week on a non-statutory basis.
It lacks the power to compel witnesses to attend, produce documents or give evidence under oath.
A non-statutory inquiry does not have to meet the requirements of the Inquiries Act 2005 and can therefore decide its own procedures and protocols. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We are focused on the outcomes. The most important thing is to make sure families get the answers they need and that it’s possible to learn the lessons, that it’s done transparently and that it happens as quickly as possible.Education Secretary Gillian Keegan on Tuesday said a statutory inquiry is “on the table”.
Dame Christine Beasley, a former chief nursing officer, said if witnesses “can opt out of it if they want to”, “relatives and patients will not feel that they’ve got to the bottom of it”.
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