Standby for some very good news about the IMC Rating coming soon!
It seems that the UK IMC Rating will receive credit as the 'basic' phase of the forthcoming 'modular' IR - a recent LSST meeting at Hoofdorp has confirmed this. But I have no information about the precise accreditation or timescale..
One thing which I will certainly be pressing for is that wherever completed, the UK IMC Rating should receive this credit - including at a RF. Not just at a FTO! The IMC Skill Test is carried out by a CAA-authorised Examiner, so there should be no logical reason to refuse recognition of training carried out at RFs.