This inquiry is what campaigners have called the “defining moment” in their decades-long “fight for answers”.
But it might not draw a line under the scandal.
In 2017 a group of more than 500 victims were given permission to sue the Department of Health for damages.
That legal action was suspended in late 2018 because of the inquiry, but could start back up again depending on the strength of the findings and the government’s response.
Other civil cases are also on hold, including one against Treloar’s College in Hampshire, where more than 120 young haemophiliacs are thought to have been infected at the NHS-run centre on site.
A former health secretary, Andy Burnham, has called the scandal “one of the greatest injustices this country has ever seen.”
Last week, he told BBC Breakfast that he was “not told the truth” by officials, and has suggested that charges of corporate manslaughter could be considered in the future.