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In his evidence to the Inquiry, Lord Michael Forsyth agreed the Department of Health should have consulted the Scottish Office and Scottish plaintiffs sooner about changing its decision to settle the HIV Litigation.

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Malcolm Rifkind was the Secretary of State for Scotland but delegated day-to-day ministerial responsibility for health matters to Lord Michael Forsyth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.

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David Steel MP wrote to Dr Christopher Ludlam explaining he would ask a parliamentary question about compensation for haemophiliacs infected with HIV and forward the reply to him.

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C Lugton sent a memo to A J Murray and Dr McIntyre, attaching advice from the Department of Social Security regarding calls to compensate people with haemophiliacs infected with HIV by blood products, stating that Scottish Home and Health Department could not advise the Minister of State in Scotland to take a different line from Lady Trumpington, who had already rejected such calls.

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C Lugton sent a memo to Duncan Macniven and David Stevenson indicating the Minister of State had received correspondence from Edinburgh MPs in regard to calls to compensate people with haemophilia infected with HIV by blood products.

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Lord Simon Glenarthur, Minister of State for Scotland, was advised by C Lugton not to hold out any hope of a change of the Government's policy in relation to compensating people with haemophilia infected with HIV by blood products, with prepared drafts attached.

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Lord Simon Glenarthur, Minister of State for Scotland, sent a letter to Sir Alex Fletcher MP, explaining there was no State scheme to compensate haemophiliacs infected with AIDS.

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Dr Gordon Lowe, of the Glasgow Haemophilia Centre, wrote to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Michael Forsyth, in support of the Haemophilia Society's campaign for compensation payment by the Scottish government to haemophiliacs infected with HIV via blood products.

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C Lugton prepared a draft response for Mr Forsyth to send to Dr Lowe in response to the Haemophilia Society's campaign for compensation payment by the Scottish government to haemophiliacs infected with HIV via blood products.

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Michael Forsyth wrote to Dr Gordon Lowe confirming the Government's decision against provision of compensation for those infected with HIV, following careful consideration.

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C Lugton sent Duncan Macniven a draft PS minute and suggested reply in response to the Haemophilia Society's campaign for compensation payment by the Scottish government to haemophiliacs infected with HIV via blood products.

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Michael Forsyth wrote to Dr Gordon Lowe confirming the Government's decision against provision of compensation for those infected with HIV.

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Malcolm Rifkind sent a letter to George Younger confirming the Government's decision against provision of compensation for those infected with HIV.

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The Home and Social Affairs Committee Sub-Committee on AIDS met and decided to make an ex gratia payment of £10 million to be administered by the Haemophilia Society (which led to the establishment of the Macfarlane Trust).

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C Lugton, official at Scottish Home and Health Department (SHHD), wrote to Malcolm Harris at the Department of Health and Social Security regarding the grant to the Haemophilia Society. He stated there was no possibility of the SHHD making any significant contribution to the setting up or running of the structure that would ensure the grant was efficiently administered.

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George Tucker, assistant secretary in the SHHD, drafted a memo to PS/Michael Forsyth, recording the announcement by the Secretary of State for Health of a further payment to the Macfarlane Trust was taken without prior consultation with or the agreement of the SHHD (or the other health departments). Furthermore, the Welsh Office and the Northern Ireland Office had agreed to contribute.

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Amidst HIV litigation claims issued against Scottish health boards, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Secretary of State for Scotland, defences were filed on behalf of Lothian Health Board and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.

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At a meeting between the SHHD and SNBTS, Professor John Cash claimed that it would have been a "logistic impossibility" to have substituted cryoprecipitate for Factor 8, and that the "professional view" was that the risk did not justify such substitution

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S Lindsay sent a memo to Robert Panton stating "all defenders" of AIDS/haemophilic actions appeared to hold the view that the actions should be resisted.

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HIV litigation claims against Scottish health boards, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Secretary of State for Scotland came to the attention of Michael Forsyth after a report in the Daily Record.

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