The Government’s response to the delayed Ouseley report was finally published on 29 May 2024, the last day before the dissolution of Parliament. In this piece a leading Special Advocate describes that response as underwhelming, especially after so long.
Yesterday, in the ‘wash-up’ period before the General Election, the Government published its response to the Ouseley report. This was a report that had been required by Parliament to “be completed as soon as reasonably practicable” from June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the relevant part of the Justice and Security Act 201 coming into force. Despite this legal requirement (a) the report was over 2.5 years delayed in being commissioned by the Government; (b) a year further delayed in being published in December 2022 after it was submitted to the Government by Sir Duncan at the end of 2021; and (c) it took a further 1.5 years, until now, to come up with a response. The upshot is that we are now nearly 6 years after the fifth anniversary review date, before sight of HMG’s response to the review.
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