PACAC Role for Future Inquiries
Infected Blood Inquiry · Infected Blood Inquiry Final Report · Issued 20 May 2024 · Addressed to: UK Government
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
PACAC should accept the role in respect of any future statutory inquiry of reviewing the government’s timetable for consideration of recommendations, and of its progress towards implementation of that inquiry’s recommendations.
Infected Blood Inquiry, Infected Blood Inquiry Final Report · 20 May 2024 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- No published decision by PACAC to accept this standing role for future statutory inquiries has been identified to March 2026.
Response — verbatim from government
●UK Government
The Government accepts the principles behind recommendations 12d) and 12e), and notes that they are for Parliament to consider. Alongside the UK Government's response to the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee report, the UK Government is actively considering where there is scope for wider reforms to the frameworks within which inquiries are set up, run and concluded. As part of this, the UK Government will also examine how best to ensure more effective transparency and accountability around the response to inquiry recommendations and the implementation of those which are accepted. The Government will update Parliament as this work progresses.
Next Steps
As progress continues to be made against the Inquiry’s recommendations, the relevant government leads will report on the recommendations for which they are responsible. We are committed to transparency and accountability, and will be publishing the Government’s progress via a publicly accessible dashboard in due course, which will be regularly updated as progress is made.
UK Government · 14 May 2025 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 15 Jan 2026 · IBCA Community Update As of 13 January 2026: 3,721 people asked to start claims, 3,546 begun process, 3,074 received offers totalling £2.47bn, 2,861 paid totalling £1.89bn. Third compensation regulations in force 31 December 2025. View source → Good Progress
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Source and Response are verbatim from primary documents. The Evidence trail records published activity since — written statements, consultation outcomes, inspection findings, parliamentary references. The Index does not paraphrase or characterise intent; it tracks what has been published. Where the evidence is the absence of action (a missed deadline, a slipped timetable), that absence is documented from primary sources rather than inferred.
This recommendation's data is verified periodically against primary sources. The Index is monitored for staleness weekly.