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The "Sunday Telegraph" reported the concerns in Whitehall regarding the large amounts involved in the compensation scheme.

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Brendan Brown provided a statement on behalf of the England Infected Blood Support Scheme setting out the number of interim payments paid in the first year.

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Martin Bell provided a statement on behalf of the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme setting out the number of interim payments paid in the first year.

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Alison Ramsey provided a statement on behalf of the Welsh Infected Blood Support Scheme setting out the number of interim payments paid in the first year.

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The Government declined to share with the Inquiry and its participants detailed information regarding its decision-making, relying on the principles of collective Cabinet responsibility and safe space decision-making.

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Jeremy Quin suggested the Inquiry's final report would enable the Government to see the recommendations made in the Second Interim Report "In their full context".

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According to Shona Dunn, Second Permanent Secretary at the DHSC, no final decision had been made on the nature of compensation payments.

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Sam Rushby provided a statement to the Inquiry. His entire family - mum, dad and three-month old baby sister - all died of AIDS by the time he was three.

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Jeremy Quin's expectation was that the full report would put the compensation proposals "into further and - I fear in many ways - deeply upsetting context."

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In response to Jeremy Hunt's oral evidence, The Haemophilia Society observed that the Government should have been aware of the potential for large sums of money to be required for compensation and that media coverage of the Inquiry coupled with the Second Interim Report and Sir Robert's Compensation Framework Study provided enough context for taxpayers to understand.

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Following the Inquiry's First Interim Report, three former health secretaries wrote to the Prime Minister arguing that refusing to make interim payments would continue the injustice.

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Andy Burnham wrote to the Chancellor reminding him of the contents of his letter to the Prime Minister in 2002 and urging him to earmark funding for compensation.

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Leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, told Parliament "we must put it right." She referred to the original injustice as well as the further layers of injustice.

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Watkins and Gunn Solicitors submitted to the Inquiry that the core participants they represented felt angered and distressed by the "inability of government witnesses to (i) commit to any future timetable, and (ii) to provide detailed answers to straightforward questions."

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Jason Evans sent an email to John Glen, Paymaster General, pointing out that interim compensation payments in 2022 were not paid to some of the most severely impacted.

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Dame Diana Johnson MP noted the Budget delivered that day did not make any provision for further interim payments to alleviate the immediate suffering of parents who had lost children, and children who had lost parents. She referred to the example of Sam Rushby whose entire family died of AIDS but he had received no compensation.

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Penny Mordaunt stated that the House of Commons would not have to wait long for an update on compensation by the Paymaster General.

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Penny Mordaunt recognised that people had suffered "layer upon layer of injustice".

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The Prime Minister was asked why the Government was postponing its response to compensation until after the publication of the final report. He responded by stating "extensive work has been going on in Government for a long time...as well as interim payments of £100,000 being made to those who were affected."

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The Expert Report to the Inquiry Blood Inquiry: Hepatitis referred to variability throughout the UK in referral to specialist palliative care and access to palliative care services for patients with chronic liver disease.

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