UPDTAE: SELECTION CRITERIA CONFIRMED
This afternoon the National Inquiry's press team emailed me a link to a document titled Local Area Investigation Selection Criteria. It sits on the Documents page of the Inquiry's website, dated 24 June 2026.
My article stated that no selection criteria had been published. I was wrong, and I correct it here without qualification. The document exists. I had missed it.
The criteria were placed on a documents page, on the same day the Inquiry announced its first investigation areas, in a batch alongside costs protocols and technical guidance. I can find no press release accompanied them. Nor any announcement mentioning them.
I have been back through the national coverage of 24 June, from the Press Association wire to the broadcasters, and I cannot find one report that references a selection criteria document.
The Inquiry's own announcement yesterday, published on the very day its Terms of Reference required the criteria to be public, does not mention them either. The most consequential document this Inquiry will produce, the one deciding which towns and cities are investigated and which are passed over, was published in a manner where most people would miss it. It worked.
I have now read the document the Inquiry was so careful not to draw attention to. Tomorrow I will take you through it, paragraph by paragraph. What I have to share with you is far worse than not publishing a selection criteria.
Raja Miah MBE
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