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An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting hepatitis or HIV, a public inquiry reported on Monday.
100 people became infected with HIV by transfusion and about 26,800 were infected with Hepatitis C.
Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, acknowledged that Lord Clarke had 'questions that need to be addressed' from his time as a health minister.
Campaigners have demanded an apology from the Tory former minister and there are calls for him to lose his peerage.
The Tory former Health Secretary was criticised by the Infected Blood Inquiry for claiming in 1983 there was “no conclusive proof” that Aids could be spread through blood