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The position of the Welsh Office was generally perceived as "being on all fours with that of the Department of Health" in relation to the HIV litigation.

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David Hunt, Secretary of State for Wales, wrote a letter to David Mellor, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, supporting the proposal for a settlement through the MacFarlane Trust.

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Peter Davenport of the Welsh Office wrote to ministers that the Department of Health had requested the views of territorial departments on the Haemophilia Society's campaign for parity between those infected with HCV and HIV.

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A draft letter from Welsh Office Health Service officials outlined concerns associated with compensating those infected with Hepatitis C, however it acknowledged that some form of "no-fault" compensation "may be inevitable".

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In response to a written parliamentary question, Welsh Office Minister Jon Owen Jones maintained that Government policy was that people infected with Hepatitis C through NHS treatment "should not receive special payments".

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In a memo from Sue Paterson to the new minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government regarding Hepatitis C compensation, it was strongly advised that Wales maintain "the Government position on no-fault compensation".

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In a memo from Sue Paterson to the minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government regarding Hepatitis C compensation, a line to take was suggested: people with haemophilia infected with Hepatitis C through NHS treatment received the "best available treatment at the time".

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The Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government wrote that there were no plans to make payments to those infected with Hepatitis C on the grounds that they received the best treatment available at the time.

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A paper entitled "Safety of Blood and Blood Products" provided to the Health and Social Services Committee stated that a UK inquiry was unlikely to provide a satisfactory answer and maintained the Welsh Assembly and UK Government position that no compensation was to be paid.

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A letter from Jane Hutt, Minister for Health and Social Services to David Lloyd stated that Welsh Assembly Government policy remained that compensation was only to be paid to patients when the NHS was at fault.

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Jane Hutt, Minister for Health and Social Services, wrote to Jan Wallace, Secretary of Haemophilia Wales, explaining that the Welsh Assembly had no plans to review or extend the special payments scheme.

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A draft letter from the Welsh Assembly Government to Haydn Lewis stated that the position remained that no compensation was to be paid to those "inadvertently" infected with Hepatitis C, as they received the best available treatment at the time.

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Jane Hutt wrote to Haydn Lewis stating that the Irish compensation scheme was being set up following evidence of negligence by the Irish Blood Service, but "that blood services in the UK have not been found to be similarly at fault."

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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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