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Memo from Barry Barber to Brian Dyos regarding the visit report of Birmingham Children's Hospital in February 1981. Factorate usage was the mainstay of treatment that year. Cryoprecipitate primarily used to treat those with Von Willebrand's disease.

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1983 recorded an increase in Factorate usage with no indication of an increase in cryoprecipitate use

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Annual Returns for Birmingham Children's Hospital 1984 recorded a very modest increase in the amount of cryoprecipitate used and an increase in NHS concentrate.

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Report on case for an additional Haemophilia Sister which outlined the increase in haemophilia workload annually and the number of sisters working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital.

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It was believed that doctors treating people with haemophilia were careful in explaining risks to their patients.

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The Haemophilia Society campaign was given a press launch on 13 October and the television programme "First Tuesday" was expected to run the issue in December or January.

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David Tomkinson had been diagnosed in 1985 and died on 12 April 1987, aged 28. Jacqueline Tomkinson, his wife, told the Inquiry that her family almost lost their family home and had to rely on family members to help pay their mortgage and look after the children whilst she worked and nursed her dying husband.

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One woman described how her father became progressively more ill in 1985 and eventually had to retire on medical grounds at the end of the year.

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The Cardiff patient, Kevin Slater, had been thought to be suffering from AIDS in spring 1983. Over the following two years his health deteriorated and he was repeatedly admitted to hospital. He died on 23 June 1985, aged 22.

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Lynda Maule described how hospital staff would not bring food into his room near the end of his life and no one wanted to enter his room describing that he was not treated like a human being. The funeral director did not want to enter his room to collect his body.

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Terry McStay was described as just getting weaker and weaker and all his family could do was help relieve his pain.

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The Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, John Moore, stated that his initial reaction was that it would be most unwise to make the "further look" into the people with haemophilia case public.

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At the Infected Blood Roundtable meeting, campaigner Jason Evans suggested undertaking work on a compensation framework but the government decided to wait for the Inquiry to conclude.

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Following the Infected Blood Roundtable meeting on 28 January 2020, Oliver Dowden, Paymaster General, wrote to Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, stating he had asked officials to consider the proposal for a compensation framework.

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Andy Burnham MP called for "full, fair compensation now."

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Dame Diana Johnson MP called for compensation stating "Delay is not acceptable."

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Dame Diana Johnson MP called for proper compensation for those infected and affected by the NHS blood scandal across the United Kingdom.

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Dame Diana Johnson MP requested the Prime Minister commit to providing compensation rather than waiting two years "when we know that so many more people will die."

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Dr Philippa Whitford MP asked the Government to accept responsibility for the worst scandal in the NHS and pay compensation.

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A holding response was sent following Penny Mordaunt's letter to Rishi Sunak dated 21 September 2020.

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