Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress has been made on the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal.
Following a consultation, I announced on 3 November that this will be a statutory Inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act, sponsored by the Cabinet Office.
The Cabinet Office is now analysing over 800 consultation responses, and I will make a further statement before Christmas on the setting up of the Inquiry.