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Jill Taylor wrote a memo to Sue Cartwright and Robert Allan noting the further intensification of the campaign for financial assistance, with requests from Lord Morris and Edward O'Hara MP to meet the Prime Minister.

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Campaigners from the Manor House group and Haemophilia Action UK staged a protest march demanding compensation.

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The judgment of Mr Justice Burton in A and Others v National Blood Authority was handed down.

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In light of the High Court judgment, Yvette Cooper requested a position paper setting out options. Briony Enser wrote the paper noting that although the judgment only placed a legal obligation to make payments to those awarded damages, "it introduces further questions of inequity and increases the moral pressure to do so."

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Officials published the Information Pages on Hepatitis C options document in response to a request from Yvette Cooper.

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Helene Shaw sent an email to Marsali Caig noting an amended line to take in response to an Early Day Motion regarding the Carpet of Lilies campaign, indicating that ministers were "reviewing the case for compensation" in light of representations from parliamentarians, the Haemophilia Society and other lobby groups.

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Charles Lister wrote a memo to Yvette Cooper advising that it would be difficult to provide payments to people with haemophilia without also making payments to those infected through blood transfusion.

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A meeting was held with the Minister of State for Health, John Hutton, who did not think that offering compensation was an option but asked officials to look into providing a social care support package similar to that of the vCJD scheme.

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Charles Lister wrote a memo to John Hutton recommending that the Minister await the outcome of a report from the Department of Health's Hepatitis C Steering Group.

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A briefing prepared for a meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee on Health (involving ministers from across the UK) recognised that the existing line would be difficult to sustain in the rest of the UK if the Scottish Executive "commits to the Scottish Parliament report."

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Jane Colman sent an email to Charles Lister recording the agreement to hold the policy line that no payments would be made in respect of Hepatitis C infection through blood and blood products except where awarded by the courts.

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John Hutton, responding to an adjournment debate, acknowledged that the issue of compensation was "the most difficult decision of all".

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The speaking notes prepared for Baroness Hayman clearly suggested that the reasons at the time the scheme was introduced related to stigma and transmission to partners.

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An internal email from David Dunleavy and Gwen Skinner to Trish Fretten queried whether it was the case that "we thought we were on weak legal ground in the HIV case...When it comes down to what was or may have been said publicly I suspect that it is difficult to find any difference in the merits of the groups themselves ie between then and now."

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In her written answer in response to Lord Morris of Manchester, Baroness Hayman referred to the very high level of stigma attached to HIV in the 1980s.

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The Haemophilia Society wrote to Lord Morris of Manchester taking issue with Baroness Hayman's answer to his question in parliament on the basis that it did not represent an accurate explanation of the Government's decision in 1987 to introduce a special payments scheme for those infected with HIV.

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Lord Philip Hunt took over from Baroness Hayman in July 1999 and in September attended a briefing with officials regarding the Hepatitis C issue.

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Lord Philip Hunt was advised that ministers had taken a clear decision not to award a special payment scheme but that there was continued unhappiness and lobbying.

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A line to take drafted for ministers sought to justify the difference between Hepatitis C and HIV on the basis that the decision to make special payments for the latter was an exception by the previous Government "in circumstances where the only prospect for these patients was early death."

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In response to Lord Hunt's request for an outline costing of a hardship fund for people with haemophilia infected with Hepatitis C, the advice was that such a fund would be unlikely to be acceptable.

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