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The decision was taken in October 2008 not to release Professor Bloom's report because it was written in 1990 so it was outside the date range of papers that the Department of Health had committed to release.

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Discussions were being had in relation to releasing Professor Bloom's report.

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Lord Warner providing a copy of a request from a campaigner for him to provide a so-called secret Westminster-funded report into haemophilia and Hepatitis non-A non-B between 1979 and 1982.

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In response to a request from a campaigner for Lord Warner to provide a so-called secret Westminster-funded report into haemophilia and Hepatitis non-A non-B between 1979 and 1982, standard lines to take were used and Lord Jenkin understood from the letter that there were issues with the filing and record management systems.

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Lord Jenkin raised concerns with the office of Sir Nigel Crisp (later Lord Crisp), who was both the Chief Executive of the NHS and Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health.

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Lord Warner wrote to Lord Jenkin where he outlined that the Department of Health had the Departmental Records Office that held closed files on these areas and that the relevant files were subject to a branch review.

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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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Lord Nigel Crisp in his oral evidence gave three reasons why he did not believe that he said to Lord Jenkin that there had been a deliberate cull of documents: (1) he did not have any knowledge other than the briefing he had received; (2) it was not true because the Department of Health subsequently reconstructed most of the papers and (3) his officials would have raised it with him if he had gone beyond the lines to take.

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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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