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William Connon, Head of Blood Policy, prepared a submission for the Minister regarding the Self-Sufficiency Report.

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Zubeda Seedat told the Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for Public Health the publication of the Self-Sufficiency Report was further delayed until 16 February 2006.

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Zubeda Seedat updated the Under-Secretary of State for Public Health that the publication of the Self-Sufficiency Report had been moved back to 27 February 2006.

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A submission was put up to the Minister so that media handling around the publication of the Self-Sufficiency Report could be agreed.

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Richard Gutowski, Head of Blood Policy, forwarded a document to Graham Buckler which was purported to be a note of a meeting of haemophilia centre directors, at which the DHSS was present, which took place in 1982. Richard Gutowski said the note "supposedly records that the existence of non-B and Non-A hepatitis in the blood supply was known at the time and that it was serious enough to warrant monitoring."

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Dr Shanida Nataraja, a junior medical writer at Dianthus Medical Ltd, was appointed by Dr Adam Jacobs to undertake the work on the Self-Sufficiency Report.

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A further draft version of England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: Chronology from 1973 to 1985 did not have an executive summary. It was saved in a folder called "Work in Progress".

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By this date the Christmas Eve version (Peter Burgin's version) of the Self-Sufficiency Report had been referenced, all bar some 26 matters.

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The 13 July version of England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: Chronology from 1973 to 1985 contained a note referring to the need to add information about surrogate testing for Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis, as well as first, second and third-generation tests.

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The original report by Peter Burgin had spoken of Professor Zuckerman's warning, in the 1975 TV programme about the risks of hepatitis from commercial concentrates, that hepatitis linked to factor concentrates could lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer, however, the Dianthus version left this entire paragraph out.

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The draft executive summary of the Self-Sufficiency report was a separate document in the "Work in Progress" folder.

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A version of the report identified as Annotation of Draft Report on Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products was located in a folder called "Previous Versions". This contained comments by Dr Hugh Nicholas, the senior medical officer in the Health Protection Division.

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Dr Hugh Nicholas, the senior medical officer in the Health Protection Division, commented on the August version (Dianthus version) of the Self -Sufficiency report, observing one thing that frequently seemed to be missing were the actual views of the Department of Health.

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In response to the view in the draft report that doctors treating haemophiliacs explained the risk of viral infection, Dr Hugh Nicholas observed that could be construed as contentious by patients who had not had all of the relevant risks explained to them.

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Dr Shanida Nataraja responded to Dr Hugh Nicholas's comments on the draft report.

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A version of the report identified as England and Wales Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products: A Chronology from 1973 to 1985 (draft) was located in a folder called "Previous Versions".

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Dr Shanida Nataraja referred to making amendments to the report "on the advice of David" in an email to Richard Gutowski..The email also specifically raised matters which Dr Shanida Nataraja suggested might be added to the report.

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A briefing note called Haemophiliacs and AIDS for Baroness Trumpington contained the wording "Doctors treating haemophiliacs were, we believe, careful in explaining these risks to their patients." This wording appeared in the Dianthus version of the Self-Sufficiency report in 2004.

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During his evidence to the Inquiry Lord Fowler was asked about the wording in a letter from Baroness Trumpington to an MP in 1986, namely, "Doctors treating haemophiliacs were, we believe, careful in explaining these risks to their patients." He did not know where the wording came from.

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Baroness Trumpington wrote to Anthony Nelson in reply to a constituent's letter about heat-treated blood products for people with haemophilia.

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