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The background note that officials had prepared for Sir Nigel outlined that the draft letter sought to reassure Lord Jenkin that the Department of Health operated an effective records management system and attempted to give Lord Jenkin a fuller response to his letter.

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Lord Jenkin requested a meeting with Sir Nigel because he believed that he was being denied access to papers that related to his time as Secretary of State and which he considered he was entitled to review under the Ministerial Code.

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Lord Jenkin told a campaigner that he had an appointment with Sir Nigel and had asked him to make available all the files on contaminated blood and hepatitis from Lord Jenkin's time in office.

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A briefing was prepared by William Connon for Sir Nigel before his meeting with Lord Jenkin regarding missing files.

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Lord Jenkin wrote a note of the meeting to Carol Grayson outlining what occurred in the meeting with Sir Nigel and said that the meeting had been reasonably satisfactory.

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In his evidence to the Archer Inquiry, Lord Jenkin said that at the meeting with Sir Nigel, Sir Nigel made it clear to that all the files that bore upon the issue of contaminated blood products had been destroyed as following the HIV litigation the Department of Health felt that there was no longer any point in retaining the files about contaminated blood and that they were accordingly destroyed.

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Zubeda Seedat worked to find relevant files, contacting the Departmental Records Office in Nelson.

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Zubeda Seedat worked to find relevant files, contacting the National Archives. Twenty files were found and were being assessed to see which may have come across Lord Jenkin's desk.

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Lord Jenkin was informed of the findings from Zubeda Seedat's searches.

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Lord Jenkin attended the Department of Health to view the files.

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Lord Jenkin emailed a campaigner who had prompted his interest and said that after the finalisation of the HIV settlement, many of the most relevant files were no longer retained at the Public Records Office, and had been destroyed, and these included all the files on the supply of contaminated blood products.

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William Connon wrote to Lord Jenkin providing two sets of papers and noted that a number of files from the 1970's and 1980's had been destroyed

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Sir Nigel raising his concerns about how few files were available to him. Lord Jenkin requested to discuss this with Sir Nigel.

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Zubeda Seedat prepared a briefing for Sir Nigel to respond to Lord Jenkin. The briefing explained that many key papers from the 1970's and 1980's had been destroyed and that papers were not adequately archived and were unfortunately destroyed in the early 1990's. It also outlined that an investigation was undertaken relating to missing files.

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Sir Nigel Crisp in which he said he considered Sir Nigel's letter to contradict what he had been told in their April meeting regarding the destruction of documents.

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Lord Jenkin raised a question to the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords regarding contaminated blood and people with haemophilia.

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Lord Jenkin chased for a response to his letter on 31 January 2006 and an internal email shows that it was decided that the reply was to be delayed until the date for the publication of the Self-Sufficiency Report was known.

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Sir Nigel wrote to Lord Jenkin stating that he had explained that certain papers had been destroyed following the HIV litigation and apologised for their destruction.

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Lord Hunt upon his return as a minister because he was concerned about having access to documents that the Department of Health was known to hold about infected blood. No reference was made to the destruction of records.

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Lord Jenkin was concerned about having access to documents that the Department of Health was known to hold about infected blood, and correspondence followed in which arrangements were made for him to have it.

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