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The Department of Health was aware that most people with bleeding disorders who had received unheated concentrates had been infected with non-A non-B Hepatitis.

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The Haemophilia Society and Alf Morris MP sought "a special inquiry into the compensation issue of those with haemophilia infected with the HIV virus."

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Stephen Dorrell, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, responded to an MP raising the question of an inquiry by differentiating the situation of those with haemophilia from those injured from thalidomide because the issue in the latter was one of corporate liability.

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For much of the 1990s, campaigning activities focused principally on the absence of financial assistance for people with haemophilia who had been infected with Hepatitis C.

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The Government's failure to heed repeated requests for financial assistance for people with haemophilia who had been infected with Hepatitis C led to a day of action with representatives delivering a petition and white lilies to Downing Street.

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Karin Pappenheim wrote to the editor of The Times to highlight the day of action by the haemophilia community and called on the Prime Minister to respond to calls for financial assistance for people with haemophilia who had been infected with Hepatitis C.

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The Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry followed on from the announcement of Frank Dobson, the Secretary of State for Health, on 27th July 1998 that financial recompense in relation to Hepatitis C would not be given.

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The Haemophilia Society sought to persuade the Health Select Committee to undertake an inquiry looking into safety issues posed by blood-borne viruses, including HIV, Hepatitis C.

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The Haemophilia Society's chief executive, Karin Pappenheim, wrote to Frank Dobson seeking his support for a full public inquiry.

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At a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hepatitis C, Karin Pappenheim explained that the Haemophilia Society's campaign for a public inquiry was "also about truth and social recognition".

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Karin Pappenheim wrote to the British Medical Journal setting out the Haemophilia Society's call for a public inquiry.

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Lord Morris wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair seeking a meeting with him and representatives of the Haemophilia Society about the case for a public inquiry.

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Lord Morris asked Baroness Helene Hayman when a response to the Haemophilia Society's request for a public inquiry might be expected, to which she replied "that a public inquiry was not the way forward".

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Baroness Helene Hayman was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health.

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Lord Morris' letter requesting an inquiry was forwarded to the Department of Health by the Prime Minister's Assistant Private Secretary.

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Sir Tony Blair expressed confidence that "investigations would have been undertaken" at the time he declined to hold a public inquiry.

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Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote a letter to Lord Morris suggesting that "it is best to take steps that are positive and which look to the future".

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Scottish campaigners echoed the Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry in the UK.

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A press release in Scotland demonstrated Scottish campaigners echoing the Haemophilia Society's calls for a public inquiry in the UK

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Lord Hunt responded to Lord Morris' question that "the Government have great sympathy with haemophilia patients who were infected with hepatitis C before the means existed to remove the virus from blood products".

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