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Jane Hutt maintained the decision not to support a public inquiry stating that all of the relevant information was already in the public domain.

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In R (March) v Secretary of State for Health, the judgment refers to the Irish compensation scheme and notes that it was put in place on compassionate grounds "without legal liability on the part of the State".

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Following review by the Welsh Secretary of State, John Redwood, a draft letter from Welsh Office Health Service officials no longer accepted that "no-fault" compensation might be inevitable.

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In a paper Dr Fowler questioned the theory of a single unknown virus and postulated that "haemophiliac AIDS may require years of repeated treatment with large quantities of concentrate [and so] be a function of the concentrate itself rather than a specific agent transmitted by homosexuals with or 'incubating' AIDS".

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Professor Bartlett in his oral evidence to the Archer Inquiry recalled that Dr Galbraith repeated his advice orally to the CSM(B). He commented further that although there were, by May 1983, only a small proportion of recipients of Factor 8 concentrate who had developed AIDS "the risk may not have been small" and added that "I think this last piece of evidence about the risk is one where other experts at the time disagreed".

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Professor Tedder stated "in veterinary medicine, products from one country would not get through incoming Customs of another country in the way that concentrates have come into the human market for haemophiliacs in the UK".

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Lord Glenarthur's office asked for a "fairly full draft letter" to respond to a parliamentary question asked by Baroness Masham. The draft response from the Department included the note that "we have confirmed with American manufacturers that future supplies of Factor VIII for this country will be manufactured only from plasma collected in accordance with US Food and Drug Administration Regulations introduced in March this year".

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The result of the FDA meeting was reported by Dr Fowler in a memo. He noted that the possibility of banning all products made before the implementation of the March 1983 regulations was rejected.

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Dr Fowler argued that the 13 July 1983 CSM(B) recommendation implied that 'pre-March 83' material should be used until adequate supplies of 'post-March 83' material were available.

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In a memo to Dr Walford, Dr Fowler expressed concerns that US manufacturers "may try to dump blood products produced from plasma collected prior to the March 1983 FDA regulations on the UK market."

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In a letter Ken Milne (Haemophilia Society) stated that the Haemophilia Society should place less emphasis on NHS concentrate and plans for self-sufficiency.

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Dr Kernoff responded to the statement that American people with haemophilia who had been treated with commercial Factor 8 concentrates had low T4/T8 ratios by saying "haemophiliacs who had been treated with cryoprecipitate usually had normal ratios. None of the patients with low ratios had AIDS".

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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reported that there was highly likely to be a viral cause of AIDS, transmissible by sex.

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In a letter, Reverend Tanner asked Professor Bloom to attend the next Haemophilia Society meeting, at which the main subject would be a discussion about AIDS.

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In a letter, Dr Galbraith (Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre) raised concerns about the risk of AIDS from blood products from the US.

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In a journal article by Dr Lee and others it was reported that there was a correlation between receiving imported Factor 8 concentrate and having low T4/T8 ratios.

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In a letter, Professor Bloom stated there had not been any major change with the status of AIDS in the UK and did not think the recommendations of the World Federation of Haemophilia Medical Board should be circulated to Haemophilia Society members.

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In a letter to Reverend Tanner (Haemophilia Society), Professor Bloom informed him that there had been little further development on AIDS.

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Following an article in the Mail on Sunday titled "Hospitals using killer blood", Professor Bloom provided a draft note for circulation to the members of the Haemophilia Society concerning the AIDS situation.

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An update on AIDS was published in Haemofact on AIDS Release No. 3 by Dr Lee, which stated: "In Great Britain the number of haemophiliacs who have been reported with AIDS remain at 2. Thus the incidence is less than 1 in 1,000 patients at risk."

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