Thank you for your email received on the 3rd of May 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 HR team of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority. We can confirm that the Infected Blood Compensation Authority only partly holds the information you have requested.
You asked the following
For the purposes of this request, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is defined as any agreement, or any clause within a broader agreement, that prevents or restricts a departing or former employee from disclosing information about the circumstances of their departure, any workplace dispute, or any conduct by the authority or its staff. This includes, but is not limited to, standalone non-disclosure agreements and settlement agreements (formerly known as compromise agreements) that contain a confidentiality clause.
1.a) In each calendar year from 2016 to the date of this request, how many settlement agreements or non-disclosure agreements meeting the above definition were concluded between the authority and current or former members of staff?
1.b) Please provide this information broken down by year. Where the number in a given year falls below five AND you consider that a precise figure risks identifying individuals, please amalgamate adjacent years so that each reported cell contains at least five agreements.
2.a) In each of the same calendar years, what was the total value of financial payments made to employees as part of the agreements described above?
2.b) Please provide this information broken down by year, applying the same approach to aggregation as in Question 1.b) where necessary.
3.a) Does the authority have any policy, guidance, or internal procedure governing the circumstances in which non-disclosure clauses may be included in settlement agreements or other agreements with departing staff? If so, please provide a copy or summary of that policy.
4.a) What is the total headcount of the authority's workforce as of the most recent available date? Please state the date to which this figure relates.
Please cover the period from 1 January 2016 to the date of this request.
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.
1.a) None
1.b) N/A
2.a) N/A
2.b) N/A
3.a) We can confirm that the information you have requested is not held by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.
The Infected Blood Compensation Authority, along with all Civil Service organisations and their Arms Length Bodies, follows the Cabinet Office Guidance on Settlement Agreements, Special Severance Payments on Termination of Employment and Confidentiality Clauses and the HM Treasury Guidance on Public Sector Exit Payments. These are both available on GOV.UK.
4.a) As of 31 March 2026, the latest date for which data was available when this request was received, IBCA had 639 employees.