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Please see below the latest news articles from the Infected Blood Inquiry and check back regularly for further updates.
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- 9 May 2024
Publication of Inquiry Report on 20 May
The Inquiry Report will be published on the Inquiry website at 12.30pm on 20 May and will then be available to anyone who wishes to read it. Sir Brian Langstaff, Chair of the Inquiry, will speak at 2pm on 20 May at Central Hall, Westminster, and this will be followed by Reflections. Both will be broadcast on the Inquiry’s YouTube channel.
The Inquiry will be printing the…
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- 16 April 2019
Newsletter
The third issue of the Infected Blood Inquiry newsletter has now been published. This is designed to provide a short update on the work of the Inquiry.
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- 1 April 2019
Insight: How the hearings will work
Public witness hearings for the Inquiry begin in April. To help those attending or interested in following proceedings we explain how the hearings will work below.
Hearings begin in London on 30...
- 14 March 2019
Register your interest in attending Inquiry hearings
The Inquiry is holding hearings from 30 April in London, Belfast, Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff (dates can be found here) at which people infected and affected will give their personal testimony.
Ea...
- 13 March 2019
Guidance on how witnesses will be questioned
The public hearings for the Inquiry begin at the end of April and we have now published the guidance that outlines how witnesses will be questioned during the hearings.
The Inquiry is not a trial...
- 7 March 2019
Insight: The work of the Inquiry - legal team
The Inquiry has a large team of experienced lawyers who are working to ensure the Inquiry is meeting its terms of reference and abiding by its statutory obligations.
Our lawyers have a range of...
- 21 February 2019
Inquiry formally confirms appointment of expert group members
We are today able to formally confirm the first appointments to the expert groups who will be providing advice to the Inquiry in a transparent and open way.
Experts from a range of fields will help...
- 14 February 2019
Statement from the Chair of the Inquiry
On 5 July 2018 I wrote to the relevant heads of the NHS in the UK to request that no documents, files or paperwork that may be of interest to the Inquiry be destroyed. I wrote again on 12 December...
- 1 February 2019
Newsletter
The second issue of the Infected Blood Inquiry newsletter has now been published. This is designed to provide a short update on the work of the Inquiry.
Please click on the link below to view the...
- 31 January 2019
Inquiry outlines approach to criticisms of witnesses
We have today published a further document in our ‘statements of approach’ series that details how we will notify witnesses or organisations that they are to be criticised either by other witnesses or...
- 30 January 2019
Inquiry makes demand for documents from Haemophilia Society
The Inquiry is committed to openness and transparency. Where decisions are made by it which determine disputed legal rights, they will be published.
The Inquiry has today published legal...
- 28 January 2019
Statement on the letter from Haemophilia Society
At the start of the Infected Blood Inquiry the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, The Rt Hon David Lidington, gave me the assurance that the Inquiry would have at its disposal the financial...