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Michelle Sholzberg

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Deborah Christie

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Jürgen Rockstroh

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David Edgar

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Publication of the Second Interim Report

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Sara Marshall

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Jonathan Wallis

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G Tucker wrote to ministers suggesting responsibility for responding to HIV infection legal claims should be left with the Department of Health since the issue was a UK one.

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J Gallagher wrote in reply to G Tucker agreeing that responsibility for responding to HIV infection legal claims should be left with the Department of Health.

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Michael Forsyth considered the Government's position on HIV infection via transfusion to be 'indefensible' and hoped that 'we might try to change the Government's line on this matter'.

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Michael Forsyth stated that during his time as Minister of State Whitehall and The Scottish Office were 'one Government'.

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The Secretary of State agreed that HIV infection via transfusion was a serious matter but that "the Department of Health should make the running for the Government as a whole."

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George Tucker wrote a memo to the Minister of State referring to the current stance of resisting requests for similar treatment to haemophiliacs with HIV; the assumption was that Scottish ministers "will wish to endorse the Department of Health line".

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George Tucker drafted a reply for Michael Forsyth to send to an MP stating: "We have confirmed with the Department of Health that there are no plans to extend the special financial help to haemophiliacs to those infected with HIV through blood transfusion."

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George Tucker, in a note of a meeting to consider management of HIV infected blood transfusion cases, reported that "the Government line remained the same and that there were no signs of DoH [Department of Health] opening up compensation to non-haemophiliacs."

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William Waldegrave wrote a letter to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Mellor, copying in the Secretary of State for Scotland, recommending a change of policy on compensation for non-haemophiliacs.

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SHHD officials recommended that Ian Lang give his support to the proposal of changing policy on compensation for non-haemophiliacs, noting the arguments that had been deployed so far in defending the differences between those with haemophilia and this group of patients "have increasingly been recognised as untenable."

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