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Zubeda Seedat prepared a briefing for Sir Nigel to respond to Lord Jenkin. The briefing explained that many key papers from the 1970's and 1980's had been destroyed and that papers were not adequately archived and were unfortunately destroyed in the early 1990's. It also outlined that an investigation was undertaken relating to missing files.

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Sir Nigel Crisp in which he said he considered Sir Nigel's letter to contradict what he had been told in their April meeting regarding the destruction of documents.

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Lord Jenkin raised a question to the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords regarding contaminated blood and people with haemophilia.

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Lord Jenkin chased for a response to his letter on 31 January 2006 and an internal email shows that it was decided that the reply was to be delayed until the date for the publication of the Self-Sufficiency Report was known.

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Sir Nigel wrote to Lord Jenkin stating that he had explained that certain papers had been destroyed following the HIV litigation and apologised for their destruction.

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Lord Jenkin wrote to Lord Hunt upon his return as a minister because he was concerned about having access to documents that the Department of Health was known to hold about infected blood. No reference was made to the destruction of records.

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Lord Jenkin was concerned about having access to documents that the Department of Health was known to hold about infected blood, and correspondence followed in which arrangements were made for him to have it.

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Lord Owen claimed that that the entire set of his Private Office papers had been destroyed, and he declined to comment on the explanations given in other witnesses' evidence.

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Lord Owen's experience was that practice differs between Departments. His Foreign Office papers remained available to him.

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Lord Owen who had complained about missing papers sought his Private Office papers.

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The Department of Health were unable to find John Moore's response to what had happened to the extra money he had allocated in 1975 for self-sufficiency of blood products. However, "Lord Owen is quoted as saying that he was told that papers had been destroyed."

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It appeared that there was no further contact from Lord Owen about his pulped papers until 2006.

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Lord Owen believed that the note by Mr Slater about destroyed papers, was almost certainly written in January 1988.

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Carol Grayson wrote to Yvette Cooper and expressed issues related to self-sufficiency. She noted that Lord Owen had been told that his files had been "'pulped'".

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Yvette Cooper did not dismiss the allegations that Lord Owen's documents had obviously been disposed of in the normal course of business as a misunderstanding.

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Yvette Cooper questioned where Lord Owen's papers were.

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Yvette Cooper commissioned a detailed review of the surviving papers of Lord Owen.

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Yvette Cooper believed that the Self-Sufficiency Report should have addressed the missing documents and "given detailed advice about what papers had been destroyed."

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The self-sufficiency report work began after Yvette Cooper had left office in the Department of Health.

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Peter Burgin was clear that he was not asked to address the destruction of Lord Owen's papers in his original draft.

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