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The Government announced a grant of £10 million to the Haemophilia Society to enable the Society to establish a special fund for people with haemophilia infected with HIV. People infected through blood or tissue transfer were excluded.

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Civil servants advised ministers against introducing a scheme for people infected with HIV through blood or tissue transfer.

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The Government agreed to settle HIV litigation for people with haemophilia but did not include people infected through blood or tissue transfer.

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Civil servants advised a line to take against payments for people infected through blood or tissue transfer.

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The Secretary of State agreed to "hold the line on these cases", in reference to providing compensation for people infected through blood or tissue transfer.

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The Observer launched a campaign to "win compensation for the forgotten NHS victims of AIDS".

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The Secretary of State wrote to the Treasury proposing financial support for people infected through blood or tissue transfer.

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Government announced the extension of financial support to people infected with HIV as a result of blood transfusion or tissue transfer.

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The Eileen Trust formally began to work with initial capital funding of £500,000.

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The Eileen Trust started to pay regpay to registered beneficiaries.

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The Eileen Trust increased the amount of regpay to registered beneficiaries.

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A health-related supplement was included in regpay at the Eileen Trust.

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Widows and widowers with children of qualifying persons started to receive regpay at the Eileen Trust.

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The first handbook for registrants of the Eileen Trust was produced.

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Peter Stevens provided evidence to the Archer Inquiry that successive governments had failed to provide adequate funding to the Trust.

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Trustees of the Eileen Trust noted "intense disappointment and dissatisfaction" with the "substantial reduction in their means of meeting the objects of the Trust".

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The Government announced that it would increase the Eileen Trust's funding in response to Lord Archer's report.

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The Eileen Trust ceased functioning and decided to distribute the remaining funds between registered beneficiaries.

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Government announcement of financial support for people infected with HIV through transfusions did not extend to Hepatitis C infections.

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Civil servants within the Department of Health warned that Hepatitis C had moved from being "a problem on the horizon to a highly political and volatile policy issue".

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