Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of documents related to contaminated blood which were previously disclosed to (a) litigants, (b) the 2009 Independent Public Inquiry on NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products, (c) the 2015 Penrose Inquiry into contaminated blood in Scotland and (d) used to inform his Department's report on Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products in England and Wales published in 2007 are (i) currently readily accessible to members of the public without the use of Freedom of Information legislation and (ii) have been disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Department has released a large quantity of relevant papers for inspection by Parliamentarians and the public.

Documents covering the period from 1970 to 1985 were published in 2007 and 2009, in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

All relevant documents on blood safety for the period up to 1995 are now available on the National Archives website, having gone live in March 2016.

It is not possible to separately identify the proportion of documents disclosed for the various purposes requested.