Andy Burnham PM, DSIT
I expect due candour from you now as the Hillsborough Law has now passed through Parliament. I as such provide this BBC transcription so you can better understand your and East Sussex responsibilities.
I am reporting concerns about East Sussex Adult Social Care. On 8/9/2026 I contacted 0345 608 0191 at approximately 17:49, 17:56 and 18:02. I do not believe I was provided with appropriate candour regarding the matters I raised. Given the principles behind the proposed Hillsborough Law/Public Office (Accountability) Bill, I ask that this conduct and the information provided to me be reviewed. under 4080723
BBC INTERVIEW — HILLSBOROUGH LAW / DUTY OF CANDOUR Interview with Professor Lydia Hayes, Principal Convenor, Centre for People's Justice BBC PRESENTER Well, let's speak now to Professor Lydia Hayes, the principal convenor for the Centre of People's Justice. You've undertaken research in conjunction with the Hillsborough Law Campaign Group, so it's really good to get you on the show. Thanks for joining us. If I could just ask you first of all, in very simple terms, what will this law actually require public officials to do differently? PROFESSOR LYDIA HAYES Thank you, Mariam. At the first level, what it requires is a duty of candour to be introduced across all public authorities. So for everyone who works across public services and public authorities, there will be a duty on them to be open and honest in communication with the public. So that's, for example, the Care Quality Commission, environmental health, midwives, the police, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Civil Service, and their employers will have to introduce and maintain and promote a code of ethical conduct. So that changes the culture in public services and public authorities, because it's important to note that while this bill carries the name of Hillsborough Law as a legacy to the Hillsborough disaster, the campaign is made up of a huge number of people, thousands of people, who have been affected by state and institutional cover-ups and deception, like the infected blood scandal, like the Post Office Horizon scandal, like the nuclear test veterans, or people who were in mother and baby units because of forced adoption. So it looks to change the culture, and there are criminal offences that sit behind these measures within the bill too. And hopefully that is going to mean that there are fewer mistakes in the longer term and less cover-up in public services and in public authorities. But where things have gone wrong, it also introduces a duty of candour and assistance at inquiries and in inquests. And what this means is that people will have to quickly disclose what they know and be open and honest at those inquiries and inquests. And if they don't, then they will be committing criminal offences. And we will all know about how long some of these inquiries actually take and how much money they cost the public purse. So this is about getting to the truth more efficiently. And thirdly, what the bill does, very importantly, is that where there are inquests because of the death of a loved one, where the public authorities may have made a mistake in relation to that person's death, as things stand at the moment, those public authorities get public funding to defend their actions, but there isn't assured public funding for the families of the bereaved. So what the bill does is it introduces the security of legal aid funding so that there is a parity of representation on both sides, which again is about getting to the truth effectively and efficiently. BBC PRESENTER Professor Lydia Hayes, good to talk to you. Thank you very much indeed for your time.
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