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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 and decided to agree to voluntary disclosure.

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Anita James wrote to Dr Metters stating that the Department of Health planned to consent to the application for third party disclosure in the Hepatitis C litigation and asked whether Dr Metters had kept any relevant records before 1997.

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The Department of Health agreed to voluntary disclosure of documents in the Hepatitis C litigation.

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Anita James sighted the ACVSB records.

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Anita James instructed Justin Fenwick QC to advise in the matter of Hepatitis C litigation, wherein she recalled seeing the ACVSB records in 1994, and noted that some of the relevant documents were no longer available.

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Charles Lister reported to Dr Mike McGovern before the restructure.

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Charles Lister joined the blood policy team after the files had been already been destroyed but had attempted to trace missing documents proactively.

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Charles Lister accepted without question the ministerial position against financial support.

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Dr Metters directed Anita James to Dr Patricia Troop, Dr Mike McGovern and Dr Rejman, as they may have retained copies of the relevant documents in anticipation of future legal action.

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Anita James reported to Charles Lister that documents held by Dr Metter's successor were shredded because they represented an 'inconvenience'.

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Charles Lister found some, but not all, of the missing documents.

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Charles Lister agreed to find and recall files from storage.

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A manuscript list was drawn up in 1997 to identify the files that needed to be recalled.

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Charles Lister's team had not been able to locate the documents not on the 1997 manuscript and sought advice from Anita James.

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Anita James informed Charles Lister's team to focus on the documents on the list for the moment.

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Anita James identified gaps in the documents provided by Charles Lister and asked him to retrieve the registered files.

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Anita James was arranging for copies of the documents provided by Charles Lister and Dr McGovern to be sent to the solicitors for the claimants and noted some further gaps in the documents.

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There was discussion between Charles Lister and Anita James about the thoroughness of a disclosure exercise required by the Department. Charles Lister cannot recall what was discussed.

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Charles Lister was unable to find submissions that had been sent to Lord Owen during his time in office. He concluded that they were extracted from the files, sent to the Solicitor's Division for the HIV litigation and then lost.

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Officials noted that papers kept by Private Office are discarded after a change of Government, shredded or handed back to the policy section.

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