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In an email from Yemi Fagun to Benjamin Cole it was stated that the Secretary of State and Anne Milton were "minded to go with Option 2 (internal review with appropriate external input)" in relation to the recommendation to review the Skipton Fund.

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In a memo from Ben Cole responding to Lord Archer's recommendation 6(h) it was noted that the recommendation should be rejected and that "a further review of wider issues is undertaken internally, supported by appropriate external experts, and that the areas for review are announced in September."

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In a memo from Ben Cole to Yemi Fagun regarding ex gratia payments for individuals infected with Hepatitis C, it was stated that Anne Milton would review a "number of aspects of support currently available to individuals who have been infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C by NHS supplied contaminated blood/blood products".

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Andrew Lansley wrote to Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, seeking a "Home Affairs Committee clearance" to publish a rejection of recommendation 6(h) in Lord Archer's report.

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Marsha David enclosed a proposal to Yemi Yagun from Dr Rowena Jecock on how to approach the review on contaminated blood.

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Responding to the requirement to seek Home Affairs Committee clearance before policy approval, Andrew Lansley stated in his written statement that "The Deputy PM will have responded giving HA Committee clearance."

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Recommendations of financial relief in relation to the contaminated blood review were presented to Anne Milton which set out a variety of options for the Government to consider.

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A report was produced entitled "Review of the support available to individuals infected with Hepatitis C and/or HIV by NHS-supplied blood transfusions or blood products and their dependants."

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Anne Milton set out, in a undated letter to David Cameron, a summary of the report by the Department of Health on the financial support available for individuals infected with Hepatitis C/HIV.

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In his written statement, Sir John Major described the Government as a "great tanker and takes time to turn around" in relation to payments to non-haemophilia patients who were infected with HIV through blood transfusions.

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In Roderick Murray's "Viral Hepatitis Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine", he showed that an exceptionally small amount of blood containing a virus could be infective.

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In Barker et al's "Transmission of Serum Hepatitis", featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the high infectivity of hepatitis was echoed.

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In Dr Rosemary Bigg's book "The Treatment of Haemophilia A and B and von Willebrand's Disease", she cited Roderick Murray's 1955 work, which identified that even an exceptionally small amount of blood containing a virus could be infective.

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A study carried out by Gocke said that, in total, 74% of the recipients of blood con_taining the Australia antigen exhibited either hepatitis or an immune response.

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At a meeting of blood transfusion officers they discussed the proposal that the pool size used at the Cambridge drying plant for plasma should be reduced to a size of no more than 10 donors.

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The British Medical Journal article had a footnote which said that "We understand that only small pools are now used by the Ministry of Health for the preparation of blood products."

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In a letter to a Dr Lehane, Dr Maycock stated that all large pool plasma should be replaced with small pool plasma and that the large pool plasma could be diverted to Liverpool so that the small pools could be examined for infectivity.

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A study of British Army records concluded that plasma was more icterogenic than whole blood and one reason for this was likely because one bottle of plasma came from a pool to which many donors contributed.

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In a letter to Dr Maycock, Dr Drummond stated that he did not think it was justifiable to continue to issue large pool plasma which had a 10% incidence of homologous serum jaundice as opposed to 1% for small pools, and that were a case of this to go to court it would not be justifiable since it was practicable to make small pools.

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A study by Biggs in the British Journal of Haematology described the process of preparing Factor 9 concentrate using 45-50 litres of plasma.

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