Infected Blood Inquiry: Administrative Records

This series contains the Inquiry’s high-level administrative and corporate records. These include: documentation relating to the establishment of the Inquiry and its policies; records of its weekly management meetings; litigation records; financial records; and correspondence.

Administrative records were managed on the Inquiry's Google workspace platform and arranged in thematic folders, one per meeting type.

Some of these files were created using Google Office Suite applications. Google native formats (such as Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides) do not exist as distinct files but are held as data to be rendered within a web browser. As such, these records could not be extracted and archived in their ‘original’ formats. Instead, they have been converted into corresponding Microsoft Office formats; their filenames include the text 'gdoc', 'gsheet', or 'gslide' to indicate that they have been exported and converted from the corresponding Google Workspace application.

Files are arranged in thematic folders, reflecting the different types and purposes of the records.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' (either at the start of the piece reference or at the end), which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.