The Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) legal team refused this week to say what the Government had actually apologised for when it admitted in 2018 that the contaminated blood scandal had involved "things happened that should not have happened".
In closing submissions at the ongoing Infected Blood Inquiry, having been asked by lawyers for hundreds of those infected and affected by the scandal to answer what the Government believed it was apologising for more than four years ago, Eleanor Grey KC, on behalf of the DHSC repeated: "We don't have a position to offer you."
In September 2018, when the Inquiry opened, Ms Grey said the Government was "unreservedly sorry" about what had happened. But on Tuesday Steven Snowden KC - speaking as representation for a number of campaign groups and hundreds of those who had been infected and affected - said the DHSC should detail what it believed had gone wrong.
