Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust Independent Review
(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the date on which he was informed that eight of the 11 members of the Liverpool Community Trust Board failed to give evidence to the Kirkup inquiry; what powers are available to require people appointed to public positions to give evidence to public inquiries; and if he will make a statement.
On 4 September 2018, Dr Bill Kirkup confirmed that, of those invited to assist the independent review into Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust panel through an interview, eight members of Liverpool Community Trust Board, did not attend:
Frances Molloy | Chair |
Wally Brown CBE | Non-Executive Director |
Sue Ryrie MBE | Non-Executive Director |
Eileen Quinn | Non-Executive Director |
Paul Patterson | Non-Executive Director |
Gary Andrews | Finance Director |
Michelle Porteous | HR Director |
Helen Lockett | Nurse Director |
The only Non-Executive Director who did attend was Jack Stopforth.
In the case of statutory inquiries, there are legal powers for the inquiry to require the production of evidence or compel the attendance of witnesses. In the case of a non-statutory inquiry such as the Kirkup Review, there is no power to compel people appointed to public positions to give evidence.