Various Organisations have been asked to provide information to the Inquiry. At Annex 1 is a list of areas of interest to the inquiry. At Annex 2 is the format for responses. At Annex 3 is a list of the organisations from which information has been requested by the Inquiry.
Anyone who has information or knowledge which they think may be of assistance to the Inquiry should send it to the Solicitor to the Inquiry.
The Inquiry intends that all relevant information will be made publicly available and published on the Inquiry website, unless there is good reason not to do so. If anyone wishes to provide information to the Inquiry on a confidential basis they should make this clear at the time of providing the information, and identify the grounds upon which they consider it should not be made publicly available. Any such information will not be made publicly available and published on the Inquiry web site until all matters of confidentiality have been resolved.
Where appropriate, the Inquiry will use lettering to refer to individuals and will, as necessary, redact evidence before publication to remove sensitive information on the grounds of personal privacy.
Generally, correspondence to and from the Inquiry team will not form part of the evidence before the Inquiry and will not be published. However, if the Inquiry receives information in correspondence which it considers should be treated as evidence, the provider of the information will be asked to put the information in the form of a statement or to agree to the publication of the letter.
The evidential hearings of the Inquiry will be conducted in public unless there is a valid reason for sitting in private. If there is such a reason, it will be explained.
