Blood: Contamination

(asked on 27th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether all documents (a) disclosed in previous legal cases and (b) used for previous Departmental reports into contaminated blood were provided to (i) the Independent Public Inquiry on NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products and (ii) the 2008-2015 Penrose Inquiry on contaminated blood in Scotland.


This question was answered on 7th March 2017

The Department cooperated with Lord Archer and Lord Penrose’s requests for documentary evidence, and the Departmental evidence that Lord Penrose used is referenced in his final report.

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