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The Caxton Foundation Partnership Group held their first meeting, at which it was noted the office guidelines could not be published on the website.

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The Board of Directors of Caxton Trustee Limited was told that there were no fixed criteria in relation to household income when considering grant applications, and that each case was considered on its individual merits.

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The legal adviser to the Caxton Foundation approved the provision of services to the Skipton Fund and the Macfarlane Trust.

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In a draft email to Martin Harvey, Jonathan Stopes-Roe expressed the Department of Health's "principles that economy and efficiency should be the watchwords; and that money spent on admin is money not available for charitable benefits."

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At a meeting to discuss service provisions for Alliance House operations, one option proposed was to "Flip the power and have (the in future likely to be much larger) Caxton instead of MFT as the service provider to the rest of 'the group.'"

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The draft Statement of Financial Procedures set out the "the governance, accountability and funding arrangements agreed between the Department of Health (DH) and the Trustees of the three Charities."

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Margaret Kennedy was appointed as a Caxton Foundation trustee.

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Grants were initially paid by means of a "voucher system". This exposed those using a voucher to the risk that they would be identified as suffering from Hepatitis C.

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The Caxton Foundation began to operate a broader regular payment scheme in 2014/15. The payments were designed to top up the income of a beneficiary to 60% (later 70%) of a median income.

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The objective of the Regular Payment Scheme changed after the Department of Health's decision not to provide additional funding. As a result of this, the Department of Health had to take account of household income in its entirety including Skipton Stage 2 regular payments and child related benefits.

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It was arranged that the Caxton Foundation would employ all of the staff working at Alliance House.

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Christopher Pond stated that: "DH [Department of Health] did not seek to influence the decisions...with respect to the policy for allocating grants, how the CF should discharge its responsibilities to the beneficiaries, the kinds of applications the CF [Caxton Foundation] should grant or the quantum of the grants/payments it should make."

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The smaller number of Eileen Trust registrants enabled the Eileen Trust trustees to develop a much closer knowledge of each individual registrant's circumstances and give a more personal service to its beneficiaries.

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The trustees of the Eileen Trust arranged that the Department of Health should contact potential beneficiaries who had not yet registered.

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The Eileen Trust trustees questioned whether registrants were sufficiently aware of the benefits they could approach the Eileen Trust for and agreed in January 1999 to create a handbook to circulate to registrants about this.

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Following the provision of increased funding in response to Lord Archer's report, the Eileen Trust Board decided to adopt a minimum level of income which registrants should have in order to apply to the Trust for funding, determined by taking into account whether they were single, lived with a partner and had children.

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Minutes of a Eileen Trust Board meeting noted that the Board did not consider that support from the Trust should necessarily be secondary to that from state benefits.

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A scheme of payments for those "infected with HIV through blood or tissue transfer" in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was set up on 24 April 1992. It provided for the payment of fixed sums to people infected and "infected intimates" in different categories, depending on whether they were adult or younger, were married, and whether they had dependent children.

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Following an "Away Day" with MacFarlane Trust trustees, Peter Stevens reported the feedback from this to the Eileen Trust Board that financial need must be a prerequisite for any disbursement by a charity.

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An article titled "Percutaneous Liver Biopsy and Chronic Liver Disease in Haemophiliacs" was published in The Lancet. It asserted that the high incidence of chronic liver disease was related to concentrate replacement therapy.

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