Under what circumstances all of the documents in the court book of the Penrose Inquiry into contaminated blood will be made available to th…

National Records of Scotland (NRS) holds the record of the Penrose Inquiry. The record was transferred to NRS at the end of the Inquiry, as required under Section 16(3) of The Inquiries (Scotland) Rules 2007.
The Penrose Inquiry record includes all documents from the Courtbook evidence database. Courtbook was used to share evidentiary material with the legal representatives of core participants in the Inquiry, and for the display of documents during the Inquiry’s public hearings. The Penrose record at NRS also includes further administrative records from the Inquiry, and an archived version of the website. While much of the Penrose Inquiry record could be made available regardless of the type of inquiry, the Scottish Government and NRS would need confirmation on what type of inquiry was being taken forward before it could determine whether some of the information, such as witnesses’ personal data, could be shared with the UK inquiry. Many documents in Courtbook are currently available on the Inquiry's archived website.