Inquiry Website Preservation
Infected Blood Inquiry · Infected Blood Inquiry Final Report · Issued 20 May 2024 · Addressed to: UK Government
Government responseUK Government: Accepted (May 2025)
DeliveryNo statement from UK Government found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The Inquiry website is maintained online
Infected Blood Inquiry, Infected Blood Inquiry Final Report · 20 May 2024 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
In May 2025, the UK Government accepted the recommendation and stated that it was taking forward work to ensure the website is maintained with full functionality after the Inquiry closes (Cabinet Office response, May 2025). It noted that a standard transfer to The National Archives leads to lost search engine capacity, but work was underway to keep all uncovered information easily publicly available (Cabinet Office response, May 2025). The record holds no update since the UK Government's response of May 2025 (Cabinet Office response, May 2025).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.
Government response
●UK Government · Accepted · 14 May 2025
The report sets out that often the findings, conclusions and recommendations made by an Inquiry are needed to refer back to once the Inquiry has been disbanded. It is usual, at the conclusion of a public inquiry, for its website to be transferred to The National Archives (TNA) for preservation of the public record.
The transfer of the ‘live’ website to TNA does result in some loss of functionality, as TNA does not currently have the capacity to maintain a website’s search engine. The Government is taking forward work to ensure that the Inquiry’s website is maintained with full functionality after the closure of the Inquiry, so that all the information uncovered by the Inquiry, that might be useful in the future, is easily publicly available.
Extract from: Full Government Response to the Infected Blood Inquiry's May 2024 Report
Delivery
No statement on delivery from UK Government has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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