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The contrast between the Government's ability and willingness to act in relation to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal without waiting for the final report of that public inquiry and its inability and unwillingness to act in relation to those infected and affected until it had seen the final report of this Inquiry was flagged up by Dame Diana Johnson MP.

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Jeremy Quin said "we paid interim compensation last year" when asked why the Government had not extended interim payments.

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Jeremy Hunt said that "the Government have already given £100,000 to the families affected" in response to a question from Dame Diana Johnson MP.

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The House of Commons voted in support of an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill which would require the government to establish a body to administer a compensation scheme. A new clause 42 was also put forward, to establish a deadline of 25 sitting days from the publication of the final report for an oral statement to be made to the House.

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Earl Howe, Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, said it was not possible for further interim payments to be made because "the legal powers to register, and make payments to, the new cohorts do not exist".

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The "Financial Times" reported that nearly 120 MPs from all the major political parties had written to Jeremy Hunt urging him to allocate funding for compensation in the Spring Budget.

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John Glen wrote to Dame Diana Johnson MP explaining that the names of the expert group would not be disclosed (other than the name of its chair) in order to safeguard their privacy and frontline clinical roles.

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The Office for Budget Responsibility referred to the interim payments made in 2022 in its "Economic and fiscal outlook" report and stated that "we will incorporate the impacts of any further recommendations into our forecast once they are sufficiently certain".

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Richard Hughes, chair of OBR's Budget Responsibility Committee, told the Inquiry that the Government had not yet provided sufficient detail on the magnitude, timing, or source of funding for infected blood compensation payments to enable their inclusion in their central economic and fiscal forecast.

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During oral evidence Penny Mordaunt described the issue of compensation as "absolutely unprecedented, the length of time that people have had to wait...and things that people have had to deal with that are very difficult to understand."

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In A and Others v National Blood Authority, the High Court found in favour of the claimants (who had been infected with Hepatitis C) under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

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A submission described measures taken in Northern Ireland to prevent the spread of HIV infection as "mirrored initiatives which have been introduced at national level" including the introduction of screening and participation by officials or ministers in the national AIDS committees.

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At the first meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS there were ministerial representatives from the DHSS, Welsh Office and Scottish Office, but the sole attendee from the Northern Ireland Office was a civil servant: Dr Robert McQuiston.

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Dr McQuiston was the sole attendee from the Northern Ireland Office at the second meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS.

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The third meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS was originally scheduled for June 1986.

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The third meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS was postponed until July 1986.

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The third meeting of the Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS was postponed until November 1986.

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The DHSS was criticised for delaying the third Ministerial Steering Group on AIDS meeting for so long.

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The Sub-Committee on AIDS of the Cabinet's Home and Social Affairs Committee met for the first time and was attended by the Minister of State or Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

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The Sub-Committee on AIDS of the Cabinet's Home and Social Affairs Committee met and was attended by the DHSS.

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