May tells the House of Commons she is disbanding the former inquiry into child sex abuse and setting up a new statutory inquiry.
In any case, allowing evidence from former inquiries that is not now secret to remain hidden to watchers of this inquiry hardly reflects a spirit of openness.
We had a huge police investigation in the 1990s and we had a public inquiry led by a former judge, as well as other inquiries.
But, in Mr Howard's eyes at least, it clears his government.Terence Cole, a former judge, conducted the inquiry into an allegation contained in a report by a UN committee led by Paul Volcker.
On top, decades of violence have left much to forgive (or forget: this week General Efrain Rios Montt, a former dictator, told an inquiry that he had known nothing of a notorious massacre of hundreds of peasants soon after he seized power in 1982).
At that inquiry, a former NASA shuttle manager testified today that it appeared obvious the front edges of the Columbia's wing would be badly damaged by the hit it took from debris upon its launch.
A8 C.I.A. Link in Campaign Inquiry A former C.I.A. official has offered fresh evidence to support accusations that a top Democratic Party official, Donald Fowler, sought to enlist the intelligence agency to aid Roger Tamraz, an entrepreneur who had contributed at least $300,000 to the Democratic Party.
A16 Union Faults Cheating Inquiry A former school inspector hired by the teachers' union accused Edward F. Stancik, New York City's special schools investigator, of padding evidence and using shoddy and unfair methods in finding that some teachers and principals had helped students cheat on standardized tests.
Central to the panel's decision was the failure by lawyers acting for the DfE to disclose that they had access to interviews conducted for an inquiry into the affair by Peter Clarke, a former police counter-terrorism chiefThat inquiry was ordered by the then education secretary, Michael Gove, at the height of the controversy.
Cook, a former Met detective, said the inquiry could be as difficult for the Met over the issue of corruption as the public inquiry in 1998 into the Stephen Lawrence case was on the force's racial failings.
Hull, a former National party MP, chaired a parliamentary inquiry in 2003 into substance abuse in Australian communities.
