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It had been restricted as the regular monthly payments would increase from time to time and adjusted for those with the greatest financial need.

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Peter Stevens stated that a census form was required to be completed for regpay. The reason a census form was required was due to the Trust needing to be kept up to date with any changes to financial circumstances as the census form required details of household bills etc.

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Peter Stevens would have, what he regarded and has recognised as, some rants that included inappropriate and disgraceful comments.

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Peter Stevens had said the Trust was inadequately set up by Government.

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Christopher FitzGerald commented in his statement to the Inquiry that he was disappointed the Government had not taken the opportunity provided by the Archer Inquiry to avoid making payments on a discretionary basis.

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Christopher FitzGerald wrote to the Government to complain that unless more money were given, the Trust could not meet its objectives adequately and said the same to officials, though the Archer Inquiry was his main hope.

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Christopher FitzGerald was given assurance in 2008 that there would be annual funding indefinitely.

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Christopher FitzGerald stated that during his time in office, guidelines were available but not necessarily circulated or published.

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Jan Barlow gave evidence that a staffing cap had been placed on the Macfarlane Trust during her time in office (January 2013 to October 2018).

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Jan Barlow learned from her first board meeting that there were concerns around the length of time it took for applications to the Trust to be approved.

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If an application to the Trust were rejected, there were no published criteria setting out the basis on which an appeal might succeed.

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Jan Barlow thought the process of funding single grants was bureaucratic, could take many months and that there were difficulties with communications as people kept being asked for more information.

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The Trust took account of payments from the Skipton Fund when assessing income.

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Decisions as to single grants were subjective, depending on the view of the decision-maker at the time, rather than based on policy.

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The Trust's taking into account Skipton payments when assessing needs associated with HIV was recognised as undesirable but nevertheless persisted with.

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Child benefit was taken into account when assessing income need for the purposes of the Macfarlane Trust.

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Jan Barlow thought that one to one meetings with Liz Carroll were very limited, and thought that a meeting on 29 January 2015 between Roger Evans, Liz Carroll and herself was the first to have been formally arranged.

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Jan Barlow is emphatic that she did not say the words attributed to her (that the Department of Health should wait before making a decision as more people will have died).

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Roger Evans sought to ensure that what the Trust board did was in compliance with the wishes of the Department of Health as he understood them.

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Roger Evans' personal view was that fundraising to substitute for what should have been provided centrally would have been insulting.

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