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Regional transfusion directors met and commentary from this meeting provided evidence that the amount of plasma recovered in different regional centres varied.

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"Trends in blood transfusion practice in England and Wales Health" was published, adding to the evidence base that 1 litre equalled approximately 5.55 donations, by assuming 180ml per donation.

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Dr Terrance Snape gave evidence to the Inquiry stating that "regulatory approval was always sought when there were logistical reasons to increase pool size".

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According to "Value of SAG M systems in the provision of plasma products", Dr Lane used a conversion figure of 190ml.

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Dr Garrott Allen wrote "Post-transfusion hepatitis, a serious clinical problem" in California Medicine, estimating that the additional risk created by paid donations mixed in commercial pools in the US suggested that products made from those pools were ten times more likely to transmit hepatitis than if unremunerated voluntary donations had been used, simply by reason of the source of the plasma used.

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The parameters of the Hepatitis C financial assistance fund were set out in a submission to the Secretary of State. The position on natural clearers was "No payments to those who have cleared the virus spontaneously".

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In a memo to the Secretary of State regarding the Hepatitis C ex gratia scheme, Richard Gutowski explained the Haemophilia Society had stated "they could not accept" the scheme proposed.

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A template letter for queries about why homosexual men could not donate blood explained: "Current screening tests for blood still fail to pick up people with very early infection. This is called the window period when people with HIV have not yet developed markers of HIV infection. We are also concerned about viral hepatitis (hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus)."

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Richard Gutowski sent a submission to John Reid and others on the issues around setting up a compensation scheme for Hepatitis C sufferers in England.

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"The Scotsman" reported Lord Ross was "on a collision course with Westminster which has ruled out making payments south of the Border. Now the Department of Health is expected to obstruct payments in Scotland, arguing that the Executive does not have the power to make such decisions."

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The Secretary of State made an announcement regarding payments following the Archer Inquiry report.

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The Secretary of State agreed to the various component parts of the Hepatitis C ex gratia payment scheme.

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Peter Stevens made suggestions for expanding eligibility for the Hepatitis C ex gratia payment scheme.

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Melanie Johnson asked her civil servants to estimate the costs of extending the proposed scheme to cover people who were coinfected, those who had cleared Hepatitis C following treatment, and dependants. Richard Gutowski recommended that those who were coinfected and those who had cleared Hepatitis C be made eligible but that extending the scheme to dependants "would at least double the cost of the scheme and remains unaffordable within the existing budgets of all the four Health Departments."

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The position on natural clearers was "No payments to those who have cleared the virus spontaneously" but this was changed after a personal intervention by an individual, in an email addressed to Richard Gutowski, which described how the writer had cleared the virus without treatment, but had carried it in a chronic active state for some 20 years.

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Peter Stevens proposed to Richard Gutowski that the distinction between those who cleared viral infection following treatment and others who cleared naturally should be abandoned.

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Peter Stevens expressed concern about the inconsistent approach being taken by hospitals to natural clearers.

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By December the Secretary of State confirmed that he was content that both people who were co-infected, and those who had cleared the virus after treatment, should be included in the scheme.

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The Scottish Executive published its report on whether people with haemophilia in Scotland had been exposed to an unnecessary risk of Hepatitis C through infected blood products in the mid 1980s. It found no evidence of fault.

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Peter Stevens advocated expanding the Skipton Fund to include people who had cleared in the acute phase.

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