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In May 2014 ministers had agreed that there needed to be wholesale reform of the AHOs by rationalising them into one organisation.

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A submission to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Jane Ellison, advised that there should be consultation with counterparts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to seek their views about scheme changes.

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David Cameron was advised by his special adviser that "Doing nothing is no longer an option".

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David Cameron was briefed that his special adviser was "pushing DH" to announce "a review of the whole system of financial support for infected individuals and bereaved relatives".

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Jeremy Hunt told Parliament he was frustrated that awaiting publication of Lord Penrose's report had caused postponement of considerations on the design of a future system.

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Jeremy Hunt announced £25 million that financial year to support transitional arrangements to a better payments system as well as apologising for the infected blood scandal on behalf of the Government.

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In his written evidence to the Inquiry, David Cameron said he believed it was right to apologise for the scandal (which he did during Prime Minister's Questions) and at the same time announced an extra 25 million for victims and a consultation on how best to spend that money and reform the payments system.

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The minutes of a meeting of the UK Health Departments recorded the desire of the English, Welsh and Northern Ireland Health Departments to work towards a UK-wide approach.

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Jeremy Hunt wrote to David Cameron suggesting that it was "basically impossible" to bridge the gap between the expectations of families who had suffered "and what we can realistically afford" but that time was pressing due to litigation from Hepatitis C sufferers and he put forward three potential options.

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In his letter to David Cameron, Jeremy Hunt gave a third option of finding an additional £100m from the Department of Health funds which would be used to fund accelerated access to new Hepatitis C treatments for those in the early stage of the disease.

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David Cameron rejected his senior policy adviser's recommendation of proceeding with Option 1 put forward by Jeremy Hunt and rejected a proposal to withdraw support from uninfected family members.

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In November 2015 it was decided that a further £25m per year would be allocated from Department of Health central funds to the financial support schemes over the following five years.

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Jeremy Hunt suggested that "Whilst parity between the devolved schemes would have been desirable, Health functions were devolved and each Administration had constitutional responsibility for its own scheme."

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In August 2015, two different payment options were identified. Firstly, to reform the current schemes to a non-charitable scheme. Secondly, to reform all schemes into one with an additional £25 million.

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Along with the publication of a consultation document on payments scheme, the Department of Health announced that they had identified up to an additional further £100 million from its budget for the proposals in the consultation.

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales were not given the opportunity to review the Department of Health consultation paper on payment schemes before they were released.

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Advance notice of the Department of Health's consultation on payment schemes was not provided to Northern Ireland.

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The report, "HCV Contaminated Blood Scoping Exercise" aimed to assist the Scottish Government in understanding more clearly the scope and scale of the unmet needs resulting from Hepatitis C infection and to detail the support required by those affected.

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The Expert Group on Financial and Other Support made a number of recommendations in its report (Ross Report).

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The Scottish Government faced challenges when seeking changes in levels of assistance from the AHOs, as any change required all four nations to agree and to identify additional funding.

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