An inquiry produces a report. there is no requirement for the government to carry out the recommendations it made, no requirement even for there to be public scrutiny of which recommendations are followed and why. often it s left to the public and to the press to follow up on the recommendations that an inquiry s made as the chair goes back to the previous job and no longer has involvement in the inquiry. government would be very happy in many instances to not have to implement an inquiry s recommendations and if it s termed a whitewash, then that relieves the pressure on the government to implement then and can lead to very little change in the wake of an inquiry. history is full of what missed opportunities can mean. recommendations about emergency service radios made by the public inquiry into the king s cross fire, for example, hadn t been acted on by the time of thejuly 7 bombings almost 20 years later. but even if the public interpret this newjudicial review as the government hol