Ministerial Accountability Board: progress report - December 2025
Information collected for the December meeting of the Ministerial Accountability Board reporting on the progress made towards the completion of the various recommendations and commitments being monitored by the board. It is based on information from Scottish Government, NHS Forth Valley and the Scottish Prison Service.
3. How to read this report
FAI determinations, and responses, in the cases of Katie Allan, William Lindsay and Jack McKenzie can be accessed via the SCTS website here - Fatal accident inquiries and determinations | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service
In this report, recommendations and actions have all been grouped into ‘themes’. These are wider areas of reform which multiple recommendations fall under. The themes are: bullying prevention; cell and personal safety; information sharing; systematic change and suicide prevention.
The chart shows how action owners’ RAG ratings have changed over time and how this looks when grouped by theme area. Information about the ‘delivery confidence RAG rating’ is included in annex 2.
This report groups recommendations by thematic area and includes a shortened description of each recommendation or action. Full descriptions of each recommendation and commitment can be found in annex 1. Where a recommendation has a number of sub-recommendations (such as 3a, 3b) these have been grouped together under the recommendation number. In addition, where there is significant overlap between recommendations from different FAIs we have grouped these together and provided a single progress update against both.