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Some sections of the framework document on management of possible exposure to CJD through medical procedures included establishing a confidential database without consent, estimates of the infectivity of blood components and plasma derivatives, and advice on the investigation and management of incidents involving blood, were "greyed out" as they had not yet been finalised.

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This Department of Health paper recalculated the risk of blood-borne transmission of vCJD.

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During 2005, following the diagnosis of vCJD in two more former donors, a further ten living recipients of implicated blood components had been notified and asked to take special public health precautions.

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In her written statement, Dr Miflin expressed that as a result of the difficulty in testing blood for vCJD, and as a result of the experience of HIV and HCV in the preceding decades, a precautionary approach was taken regarding the emergence of vCJD in the mid 1990s.

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In her written statement, Dr Hewitt stated that the strongly held views of those who supported notification of those possibly affected and those against might have led to erring on the side of not acting soon enough.

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In her written statement, Dr Angela Robinson described a shift in approach which she attributed to Dr Kenneth Calman: the concept of the 'precautionary principle' was introduced and at that stage they were doing enormous things at great cost which had not been done before.

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In the first Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Assessment Sub-Group meeting, it advised the Department of Health that the policy adopted thus far had largely been driven by the "'worst case' scenarios".

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The Prime Minister stated the Cabinet Office was appointing an expert group in order to acquire relevant knowledge to make informed decisions in response to the Inquiry's recommendations on compensation when the report was published.

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The Chief Secretary to the Treasury stated that she was pleased the interim payments "at least" had been paid.

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The Paymaster General stated the appointment of an expert group to help respond to the Inquiry's recommendations was moving forward.

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The Paymaster General, John Glen, was asked about progress being made on implementing the recommendations in the Second Interim Report. He stated he sensed the "palpable frustration" and was doing everything he could to move things forward.

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John Glen stated that with the interim payments made in 2022 the Government recognised the immediate and urgent needs of those "most severely impacted".

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John Glen said the Government was not "yet in a position to share any final decisions on compensation" but was urgently appointing experts.

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Jeremy Quin said the Government had accepted the moral case for compensation and would respond "as swiftly as we can" after the final report is published.

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John Glen provided further information on the appointment of an expert group.

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Dame Diana Johnson MP highlighted the absence of progress on the compensation scheme.

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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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