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Christine Dora explained departmental thinking was that financial compensation was not the hoped for outcome.

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The report which Susan Deacon had requested on whether people with haemophilia in Scotland had been exposed to unnecessary risk of Hepatitis C through infected blood products in the mid 1980s sought to steer her "very firmly in the direction of not agreeing to compensation or special priority treatment for Hep C sufferers who may have been infected by NHS treatment".

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A Westminster Hall debate addressed the subject of people infected with Hepatitis C through blood products.

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Sammy Sinclair requested a note for Dr Reid regarding financial assistance for people infected with Hepatitis C through blood or blood products that set out the background and issues plus the latest state of play and the suggested line to take.

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Richard Gutowski wrote in a memo to Sammy Sinclair on Hepatitis C compensation that the Government's position was that they did not believe financial assistance was justified.

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A World Health Organization Scientific Group reported: "The present widely employed techniques for detecting hepatitis B antigen in blood are thought to be capable of preventing approximately 30% of cases of post-transfusion hepatitis."

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Blood donations were first screened for Hepatitis B throughout the UK, however, the screening tests used then were imprecise.

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In 1975, radioimmunological assay began to be used ("RIA") to screen for Hepatitis B with greater sensitivity, though still missing around one third of infections, and further refinements followed into the early 1980s.

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Sarah Fraser Butlin

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Charles Vincent

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Kieran Walshe

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Dame Lesley Fallowfield

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Dame Theresa Marteau

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Sheila Bird OBE

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Penny Chan

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Daniela De Angelis

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Christl Donnelly CBE

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Stephen Evans

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Nicholas P. Jewell

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Graham Medley OBE

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