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In his statement to the Inquiry, Laurence George stated that it was not custom and practice within internal audits to interview staff who had retired or left the Department.

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Anita James provided an update to the Minister, Tom Sackville, and reported that Dr Rejman had "sent me a list of documents covering the three years [1989-1991]. They run into some 14 volumes."

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In her statement to the Inquiry, Anita James was unable to recall if 14 volumes of documents covering the years 1989 to 1991 were ever provided to her by Dr Rejman.

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Anita James moved departments and handed over to Ruth McEwan. Her reasons for leaving were significant issues at work in terms of workload and bullying by her manager.

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Anita James was referring to both HIV litigation files and ACVSB minutes in GEB/1, when referring to litigation files she had searched for in relation to another case but subsequently found they were destroyed.

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Anita Jones described haphazard file keeping in SOLB4 within the Solicitor's Division in her written statement, with files being kept in rooms and papers not being put in registered files.

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Anita Jones stated that when it emerged in early 2000 that files were missing, she had "entirely forgotten" that there had been a minute nearly 5 years earlier from Dr Rejman where he mentioned the destruction of folders.

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Dr Rejman held files relating to HCV and haemophilia litigation which he had sent to Anita James.

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In relation to documents that Anita James was seeking in order to deal with hepatitis litigation, Dr Rejman stated that as agreed, he did not intend to go through the full discovery list prepared at the time.

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Anita James acknowledged that it should have been ensured that files were retained. She regretted that she "did not act so as [to] make sure that other files which had been marked for destruction were not in fact destroyed."

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Anita James stated that she was "having to endure a working environment which by today's standards would be viewed as entirely unacceptable." She recalled "finding it difficult even simply to go to work."

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It was highlighted that in the UK there were delays introducing screening from mid 1990 well into 1991.

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Ruth McEwen told Anita James that she had spoken to David Burrage "who asserts that...all relevant files were located together in one filing cabinet. So if any is now missing he cannot account for either why that should be or the possible location."

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Dr Rejman continued to object to further work being undertaken on discovery of documents because it was "wholly inappropriate and wasteful of resources ... until we [are] certain that something would come of the HCV haemophilia case."

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The other GEB/1 files were not destroyed until between October 1997 and November 1998

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Yvonne de Sampayo stated in that she was: "particularly shocked to see reference to the suggestion that I destroyed documents because I was fearful of a difficult disclosure process due to a supposed bad experience with the BSE inquiry's disclosure process."

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Yvonne de Sampayo denied destroying any of Dr Metters' papers and said that they would have remained in the filing cabinets as it was not in her remit to make decisions about the retention of files.

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Dr Metters was described as meticulous, and had kept substantial records.

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The Department of Health were notified of a draft application for third party disclosure of documents by the claimants in the Hepatitis C litigation.

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There was a draft court order in the case of "A and Others v National Blood Authority" which permitted the Department of Health employees to inspect and take copies of documentation relating to HCV screening, minutes of the Advisory Committee, minutes of the National Blood Transfusion Service/National Institute of Biological Standards and Controls Liaison Committee.

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