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Lord Norman Fowler explained in his oral evidence to the Inquiry how the case for compensation was "hopeless".

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Dr Roger Moore explained in his oral evidence to the Inquiry the DHSS's view at the time was that the adverse effects people with haemophilia had suffered were unavoidable.

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Within a letter from Lord Glenarthur to Archy Kirkwood it was outlined how a full range of social security benefits were available to those infected.

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A letter from Baroness Trumpington to Dr Forbes outlined how a full range of social security benefits were available to those infected.

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Within a letter from Dr Forbes to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, he invited her Government to explore the possibility of a compensation scheme which would go some way to ameliorate the plight of this most unfortunate group of patients.

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A letter from Lord Glenarthur to John Home Robertson outlined how a full range of social security benefits are available to those infected.

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Within a letter Dr Peter Jones outlined the case for compensation for people with haemophilia infected by HIV.

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A memo from John Moore to the Prime Minister reinforced his view that it would not be wise to set a general precedent by accepting that the Government should provide a special compensation scheme.

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The Haemophilia Society published a Haemofact on AIDS and outlined that many individual claims might not succeed.

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Within a letter from Sir Donald Acheson (CMO) to Professor Arthur Bloom the CMO recorded that compensation raised many difficult issues.

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A newspaper article outlined: "Doctor Clarke resists call for AIDS compensation".

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A memo from Bernie Merkel to Joanne Herrick attached a briefing for MS(H)'s attendance at the meeting of the Backbench Health Committee.

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Briefing material for AIDS questions suggested the answer to a question about compensation was: "We will be considering this question fully since it has far reaching implications."

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Within a submission from Dr Moore to Malcolm Harris and Jenny Harper it was advised that in anticipation of increased pressure officials were examining ways of compensating people with haemophilia as a special case.

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Within a memo from Malcolm Harris to Dr Alison Smithies and others it was noted there was increasing pressure for people with haemophilia infected with AIDS by their Factor 8 therapy to receive state compensation.

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Within her written statement to the Inquiry, Edwina Currie explained how the option favoured by Tony Newton and herself was the idea of giving a sum of money to the Haemophilia Society to distribute as they thought best.

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Within a memo from Flora Goldhill to Malcolm Harris, it was stated that John Moore's view was that the present line against compensation should be maintained.

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"The Northern Echo" published a news article outlining Tony Newton's view that it would be hard to distinguish claims from those of other people who had suffered as a result of medical incidents involving no question of negligence.

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Edwina Currie said something along the lines of: "Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS" and explained what she meant in her statement.

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Following his participation with the World Health Organization, Dr Brian McClelland circulated to the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service a paper which focussed on steps to reduce the risk of AIDS getting into the blood supply in Scotland.

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