Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers of his Department and (c) officials of his Department have had with counterparts in the Welsh Government on the terms of the recently announced inquiry into contaminated blood.

On Tuesday 11 July, the Prime Minister announced the intention to hold an inquiry into the events that surrounded the infection of thousands of people with HIV and/or hepatitis C through National Health Service supplied blood or blood products.

The Welsh Government will be consulted as the Inquiry is taken forward.