Thank you for your email received on the 24 February 2026, in which you made a request for access to certain information which may be held by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.
As you may be aware, the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Infected Blood Compensation Authority), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and we provide a response for your attention.
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Human Resources Department of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority. We can confirm that the information you have requested is held by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.
You asked the following
- Demographic breakdowns of applicants to the case manager role
- Demographic breakdowns of applicants successful in initial sift
- Demographic breakdowns of applicants successful in initial interview
- Demographic breakdowns of applicants successful in final interview
- Demographic breakdowns of employees successful in the claim manager role
Our response
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and have provided a response for your attention below.
We have included the demographic breakdowns of applicants as two attachments to this email.
Please note: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data is only collected as part of a non-mandatory questionnaire at the point of application so it is not necessarily going to be accurate or indeed representative of the full talent pool.
If you decide to write an article or use the enclosed data, we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document, so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
Due to the different methods of recording information across government and arms-length bodies, a specific response from one body should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason, responses between bodies may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.