Reports and Committees

Chairman of British Railways, whose 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways led to widespread cuts and closures		Dr. Richard Beeching
Liberal peer, chairman of the committee that produced the 1942 report that led to the establishment of Britain's Welfare State in 1948, including the National Health Service and Social Security system (a welfare state "from the cradle to the grave")		Lord (William) Beveridge
Chairman of the inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War (2009–10)		Sir John Chilcot
Controlled teachers' pay scales in the UK, 1919–87		Burnham Committee
Led the inquiry into the Profumo affair (1963)		Lord Denning
Inquiry into the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the conduct of the Falklands War		Franks Committee
Enquiry into executive pay (Study Group on Directors' Remuneration), (1995)		Greenbury Committee
Chair of the public inquiry into the UK Government's handling of the COVID–19 pandemic (starting in 2022)		Baroness (Heather) Hallett
Inquiry into possible methods of introducing decimalisation in the UK (1961–3)		Halsbury Committee
Chair of the inquiry into the death of government weapons expert David Kelly, 2003		Lord Hutton
Congressman who led the judiciary committee that produced the articles of impeachment against President Clinton		Henry Hyde
Chair of the inquiry into the Infected Blood scandal (2018–24)		Sir Brian Langstaff
Report into the prison service (1995)		General Learmount
Head of the panel set up to investigate claims relating to the second homes allowance, following the parliamentary expenses scandal (2009)		Sir Thomas Legg
Chairman of the inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press (2011)		Lord Justice Leveson
Canadian law professor: presented (and gave his name to) the report of the WADA Commission set up to investigate state–sponsored doping in Russian sport, published in two parts in 2016		Richard McLaren
Inquiry into the police investigation into the death of Stephen Lawrence (1998–9)		Sir William MacPherson
Chairman of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, 1966–9 (led to the reforms that came into effect in 1974)		Lord Redcliffe–Maud
US senator who led a review of the Irish peace process and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement (1999)		George Mitchell
First chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life – established in 1994 by John Major, to investigate government "sleaze"; has reported annually since then		Lord Nolan
Reported in 1961 on standards in public housing in the UK – entitled Homes for Today and Tomorrow		Parker Morris Committee
Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into the history of the emergence and identification of BSE and new variant CJD in the UK (1998–2000)		Lord Philips
Chairman of the Bloody Sunday enquiry (1998–2010)		Lord Saville
Chairman of the inquiry into the 1981 Brixton riots – blamed "racial disadvantage that is a fact of British life"		Lord Scarman
Chairman of the inquiry into the sale of arms to Iraq, 1992–5 (set up following the collapse of the trial of the Coventry–based engineering firm Matrix Churchill)		Sir Richard Scott
Independent counsel who led the investigation into charges relating to Bill and Hillary Clinton's Whitewater real estate venture – whose scope was expanded after Linda Tripp submitted tapes of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky		Kenneth Starr
Author of the 2006 review on the economics of climate change on behalf of the British government – nephew of Donald Swann!		Sir Nicholas Stern
Report into the death of Princess Diana, 2006		Lord Stevens
Chairman of the 1989 inquiry into the Hillsborough tragedy, which led to all major British football grounds being all seated		Lord Justice Taylor
Investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy – established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, 29 November 1963		Warren Commission
Chairman of the UK's Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (1954–7)		Lord (John) Wolfenden

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