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Within a memo it was noted that administrative costs would be higher as there would be no shared services with the other UK health administrations.

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Within Vaughan Gething's oral evidence to the Inquiry he called the Enhanced Hepatitis Stage 1+ payment an understanding of the hurt that people had already gone through.

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Vaughan Gething, as Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport for Wales, made an announcement aimed at ending uncertainty about the level of support available from the Welsh Government.

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Vaughan Gething wrote to the 280 people in Wales who were being supported through the Alliance House Organisations asking for their views on support in the future, and two workshops were held at which people could contribute their views.

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The results of the consultation on the terms of the scheme from April 2017 onwards led to Vaughan Gething making a written statement setting out the new arrangements for a Welsh scheme.

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Vaughan Gething announced the new support arrangements in Wales for those affected by Hepatitis C and HIV. In common with the AHOs, the new scheme expressly remained one for the making of ex gratia payments and were not intended to be compensatory.

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The results of the consultation on the terms of the scheme from April 2017 onwards led to Vaughan Gething making a written statement setting out the new arrangements for a Welsh scheme to be administered by Velindre NHS Trust through the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership.

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The Scottish Government asked Professor David Goldberg to establish and preside over an expert group to assess the health and wellbeing of individuals, chronically infected with the Hepatitis C virus who had not yet progressed to advanced Hepatitis C.

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The expert group on Hepatitis C considered whether a "method, permitting the robust and rigorous assessment of the impact of hepatitis C on the individual who has not progressed to advanced liver disease, could be developed and command the confidence of both assessors (clinical staff) and assessees (patients)."

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The expert group on Hepatitis C examined the English model where, to qualify, an individual had to answer two questions regarding their Hepatitis C infection.

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There was a general agreement in Scotland that the English model should not be followed.

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The Scottish group on Hepatitis C noted that any assessment which was just clinically-based would ignore the very considerable non-clinical impacts as described in its report.

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The group on Hepatitis C unanimously favoured people with chronic Hepatitis C, including those who had cleared their virus through treatment, or their widows, widowers or partners who were eligible for support being asked to self-declare Hepatitis C impact.

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The approach in Scotland was entirely based on trusting the judgement of the potential applicant, and there was no need for a healthcare professional to be involved.

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The Review Group recommended that provision should be made for those under the scheme as "Stage one" recipients to self-assess as minimally affected, moderately affected or severely affected.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker commented that one of the difficulties the Scottish Government faced when seeking changes in levels of assistance from the AHOs, was that any change required all four nations to agree and to identify additional funding.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker stated that while SIBSS was being set up, the Scottish Government made the payments at the new level through the Skipton Fund and MFET from December 2016.

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In their oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker and Mairi Gougeon confirmed that the new scheme expressly remained one for the making of ex gratia payments and were not intended to be compensatory.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Martin Bell said that he didn't see any drawbacks to the self-certification process and that on the assumption that they trusted their members, they didn't think introducing additional bureaucracy, which would potentially slow things down, would work.

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In her oral evidence, Samantha Baker told the Inquiry that parity had not been a prominent part of the regular four nations' meetings until 2019.

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