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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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Peter Stevens understood that the reason Professor Christine Lee was not passing any applicants from spontaneous clearers was that she believed that any attempt to exclude them was logically or scientifically flawed.

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Chris Harrington in a letter to Richard Gutowski asked whether there would be provision made for those who had cleared the virus in the proposed ex gratia payments scheme.

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Lord Ross proposed initial lump sum payments and a discretionary trust making ex gratia payments to all those who had probably received blood, blood products or tissue from the NHS in Scotland and who had become infected with Hepatitis C.

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Dr Paul Giangrande had been part of a working group which had produced a report about an appropriate payment scheme for the Haemophilia Society in June 2002.

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In "S and Others v the National Blood Authority" a 17-year-old boy cleared HCV and received compensation for an adjustment disorder. This evidence was used in the report for the HCV working party regarding compensation in order to argue in favour of a position for including natural clearers in the compensation scheme.

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The Haemophilia Society responded that a report published into HCV published by the Scottish Executive was a "very thin, incomplete piece of work which does not represent the full inquiry we were seeking".

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"The Guardian" reported that widows and children of people with haemophilia who had died from contaminated blood products could be excluded from a government aid package.

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The application form regarding the Skipton Fund was agreed by all four nations.

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An IBI counsel presentation on the Skipton Fund noted that the majority of Skipton applications were accepted. However, out of those applications that appealed after initial refusal, 49.5% of appeals were accepted.

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Records of Hepatitis B patients were frequently missing and there was no check back to see where the donation had come from.

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