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In his witness statement Sir John Major talked of government policy making and changes of direction as resembling a supertanker changing course.

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In her witness statement Gaynor Lewis described the investigative work her late husband, Haydn Lewis, had undertaken on infected blood, including his work on putting together the Tainted Blood Accusations Document.

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In his witness statement Andrew March outlined his role in the Tainted Blood group.

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The Tainted Blood Accusations Document began "In 1974, Dr David Owen, then Health Minister, decided that if enough money were to be invested, the United Kingdom could become self-sufficient in blood products and they would only need to be sourced from Britain and would thus be much more likely to be free from contamination."

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In her witness statement Carol Grayson described her research into infected blood. She wrote the letter that prompted Yvette Cooper's request for a formal review into self-sufficiency.

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Carol Grayson submitted her dissertation titled "Blood Flows Not Just Through our Veins but Through our Minds. How has the Global Politics of Blood Impacted on the UK Haemophilia Community?" to the University of Sunderland. It critiqued the Self-Sufficiency Report.

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In a press release The Haemophilia Society condemned the Department of Health report into self-sufficiency.

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Donald Jackson wrote to Dr Irene Blakeney about blood products production. He requested that regional medical officers consider his paper on the same topic at their next meeting.

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Barry Gidden wrote to regional administrators about blood products production, stating the National Blood Transfusion Service was "unable to meet the demands of clinicians for certain preparations of human blood" and there was "an immediate need to provide more AHG concentrate".

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Thomas Dutton wrote to Sally Holtermann about the economic aspects of blood products production.

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Micheal Martin, Minister for Health and Children, reached agreement with the Irish Haemophilia Society in relation to compensating HIV-infected haemophiliacs and their dependents.

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An individual described long delays and hard work involved in obtaining their medical records.

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Cressida Haughton described trying to obtain her late father's medical records as "like a battle of wills".

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The Public Records (Scotland) Act 1937 was passed.

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The Scottish Hospital Service Destruction of Records provided that hospital records (including blood transfusion records) had to be kept for 6 years after the patient's treatment at the hospital, or three years if the patient died at the hospital.

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The Retention and Disposal Schedule for England provided that records had to be kept 6 years after the conclusion of treatment or 6 years after the death of a patient.

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Regional Transfusion Directors' meeting recognised that "even if the incidence had reduced significantly since the last trial, because of self exclusion or for other reasons, the introduction of anti-HBc/ALT screening seemed very likely."

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Directors of Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service agreed that the UK Working Party on Transfusion Associated Hepatitis was the most appropriate body to pursue the implementation of surrogate testing.

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Dr Gunson was a proponent of the multi-centre study of Alanine Amino-transferase (ALT) and anti-hepatitis B core (anti-HBc) for the screening of blood donations in 1986.

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At the UK Directors Working Party meeting t had been agreed that "Screening should not be introduced at present especially in view of ARC [American Red Cross] postponement of core test start-up and reports of chaos in ALT screening programme."

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