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Ruth McEwen confirmed to Dr Rejman that the SOL had a complete set of HIV discovery files.

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The joint written statement of William Vineall and Lorraine Jackson noted that there was a file gap of 44 documents in relation to HIV discovery.

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Ruth McEwen stated in a letter to Dr Rejman and Mr Pudlo that she "would like to put Mr Pudlo and CA OPU colleagues on notice that if the claims [Hepatitis C] are to proceed discovery will have to be done."

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Ruth McEwen wrote to Dr Rejman asking for clarification regarding who would be conducting the discovery of the CA OPU2 files.

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In a letter from Ruth McEwen to Dr Rejman and Mr Guiness it was stated that "Dr Rejman agreed that he would prune the HIV discovery documents removing obviously irrelevant documents" and that Ruth McEwen planned to create a second discovery list of "missing documents which cannot be located at CAOU or SOLB4".

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Tables show that a number of files related to the Hepatitis C discovery could not be found.

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In his written statement to the Inquiry Lord Crisp stated that that he could not recall having a meeting with Lord Jenkin on 13 April 2005 and that there was no suggestion that the destruction of records "was the result of a deliberate decision in the sense of anyone knowingly acting outside Departmental policy."

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Lord Peter Fraser of Carmyllie gave his support to the creation of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissue for Transplantation.

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The Earl of Arran gave his support to replace the Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood with the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissue for Transplantation.

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In a memo from Dr Rejman on the HIV haemophilia litigation it was stated that "Among the papers will be a significant amount of discussion regarding NANB (hepatitis C) which we might not wish to have in the public domain at the present time or in the near future."

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In an internal memo in connection to the Macfarlane Trust it was made clear that £2000 for persons not infected with HIV but at risk was only available to those who were pursuing litigation.

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Ann Towner asked for clarification in a memo to Leonard Levy on whether earlier files in a series had been destroyed as it was her belief that files would have been transferred to the DRO for destruction after 25 years.

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Dr Rejman explained in a memo that duplicate sets of papers on the Hepatitis C discovery could be made instead of passing on the originals as previous papers had been "mislaid".

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A memo from Mike McGovern was sent to Charles Lister stating that Mallin Souter currently had the committee papers.

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In his written statement to the Inquiry Charles Lister said in relation to the Lord Owen papers that "frustratingly, no one had thought to take a copy for the file when the submissions were bundled up and sent to the Solicitor's Division [...] We ended up concluding that the submissions had gone missing having previously been sent to the Solicitor's Division".

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In a memo from Charles Dobson to Alan Davey on AIDS litigation it was stated that "at every stage it [the government] has acted as swiftly as possible to minimise the risk of infecting haemophiliacs with AIDS in the light of the best expert opinion available at the time".

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In a letter from Brian Colvin to Dr Rejman disclosure of UKHCDO meeting minutes had been discussed which Dr Rejman had some concerns about.

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A memo from Anita James to Dr Rejman had discussed the minutes of a legal liability meeting in regard to blood products and the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and counsel had advised that further academic research was required and to look at other jurisdictions.

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Dr Rejman had responded to Anita James with his concerns and his disagreement with counsel's advice on the matter.

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In a memo from Dr Rejman to John Canavan, he expressed his views on compensation for infected and affected persons including wives who had put themselves at risk against medical advice and having cut off points for claims.

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