This is the website for the ICL Inquiry.
Notice:
The Solicitor to the Inquiry is on leave and will be returning to the office on 10 June. In her absence any questions should be addressed to:
Kathryn McCartney, Deputy Solicitor to the Inquiry - 07825 420 656, or
Trevor Lodge, Secretary to the Inquiry - 07920 477 533.
The Solicitor will be checking her emails on her Blackberry. If you are sending emails to her before 9 June please included the text of any attachment in the email so that it can be read by Blackberry.
Emails should be sent to both the Solicitor and the Secretary as follows:
Postal correspondence should continue to be addressed as normal to:
The ICL Inquiry
Lothian Chambers
59-63 George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1RN
When will the final report be sent to Ministers?
The Chairman will be submitting his final report to Ministers pursuant to section 24 Inquiries Act 2005 as soon as he has completed his work. It will then be for Ministers to publish the Inquiry Report pursuant to section 25.
On 11 May 2004 there was an explosion at a plastics factory operated by ICL
Plastics Ltd and ICL Tech Ltd at Grovepark Mills in Maryhill, Glasgow.
As a result 9 people died and 33 were injured.
This is a joint public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 and
was announced by the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,
Peter Hain MP and the Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, QC.
The Terms of Reference for this Inquiry are:
- To inquire into the circumstances leading up to the incident on 11 May 2004 at
the premises occupied by the ICL group of companies, Grovepark Mills, Maryhill, Glasgow.
- To consider the safety and related issues arising from such an inquiry,
including the regulation of the activities at Grovepark Mills.
- To make recommendations in the light of the lessons identified from the causation
and circumstances leading up to the incident.
- To report as soon as practicable.