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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Elizabeth Carroll explained that the Macfarlane Trust was legally advised to make a retraction and issue an apology and that they accepted this course of action due to the "risk to the charity in terms of cost".

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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Roger Evans explained that lawyers became involved "in order to get a retraction of the wrong allegation which she'd [Elizabeth Carroll] made" in a letter and that he knew that he didn't say what she purported.

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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Elizabeth Carroll explained that she remembered "quite clearly that Ms Barlow said, when we were talking about the Penrose Inquiry reporting, that it would be sensible for the Government to delay their response to the Inquiry -- to the Penrose Inquiry because more people would have died and there would be less money to pay".

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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, counsel asked Elizabeth Carroll whether it was possible that Ms Barlow had said that the government "might" delay making an announcement as opposed to "should".

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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Roger Evans explained that he couldn't recall whether "the Macfarlane Trust put into place any kind of programme for analysing criticisms" and how to address them. He agreed with counsel's question that it would have been helpful for the "Macfarlane Trust to have looked and worked through all these various criticisms and drawn up an action plan".

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Russell Mishcon stated in his oral evidence that he presented a draft letter to the Department of Health at a Macfarlane Trust meeting in order to threaten resignation of trustees unless further funding for 2013-14 was made clear.

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According to Alasdair Murray there was no time to run another programme in the Macfarlane Trust to run down the reserves by individual application. However, it would have been better had the applications process been reworked.

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The Department of Health had decided by late 2016 that the administering of benefits should be made through an arm's length body. It then decided in early 2017 that the administration of the schemes be brought in-house.

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Peter Stevens hired Susan Daniels, but she described the Macfarlane Trust in the early 2000s as "the bureaucracy became much more" and "there was [a] total lack of compassion" to which she added "I think they probably felt that I was a rather kind of over emotional woman and that they didn't do anything about it."

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Jan Barlow gave evidence that a staffing cap had been placed on the Macfarlane Trust during her time in office (January 2013 to October 2018).

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When chair, Roger Evans, recognised that aspects of the system were "humiliating and intrusive" and "the whole thing was not the right way to go about it".

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Some members of the Contaminated Blood Campaign group visited Alliance House and were described by Foundation officials as having barged in with the intention to shock and intimidate.

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Lord Kenneth Clarke was not aware of the CSM(B)'s existence and was surprised Lord Simon Glenarthur was unaware of the CSM(B) meetings and deliberations.

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Lord Clarke told the Inquiry that he did not have much interaction with Sir Henry Yellowlees as Chief Medical Officer.

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Lord Clarke in his oral evidence stated that he would have read the recommendations of the European Council of Ministers before accepting or adopting them.

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Lord Clark in his oral evidence said that it was the responsibility of clinicians to advise patients about minimising risks.

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Having accepted the need for an AIDS leaflet, Kenneth Clarke expressed the view that there should be an emphasis on how few cases of AIDS there had been. Lord Clarke explained to the Inquiry that the reason for this was to minimise panic.

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Lord Clarke in his oral evidence said his view was that call up cards should not be added to the AIDS leaflets because it could make the Department of Health seem homophobic.

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Lord Clarke in his oral evidence said that he intervened in the production of the first AIDS leaflet to avoid "mayhem" that could damage the blood transfusion system.

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Lord Clarke accepted in his oral evidence that the second AIDS leaflet took far too long to be produced.

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