[4] In June 2020, openDemocracy published an investigation that found that the House had blocked the release of information related to the contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom.
The files, eventually released in 2018, showed that the British government had privately admitted that some health authorities had been negligent.
Judge Hughes, concluding said that there was a “profound lack of transparency about the operation” that “might appear … to extend to ministers” and that the tribunal had been misled by the department, headed by Michael Gove.
[8] In September 2021, Minister for the Cabinet Office Chloe Smith announced that government would undertake an "assessment of the role of the Clearing House."
[9] Later that month, openDemocracy further revealed that the Clearing House had interfered with release of information surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire.