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In oral evidence, Professor Keel insisted the remit of the Scottish Executive investigation had been agreed with the Haemophilia Society.

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In oral evidence, Professor Keel confirmed that the position in the Scottish Executive, both before and in the aftermath of the publication of the Scottish Executive report, remained one of fundamental opposition to financial support or compensation for those infected with Hepatitis C.

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Professor Aileen Keel acknowledged in oral evidence that Scotland could have proceeded with a lookback exercise earlier than in the rest of the UK, however it did not. She said that it was "seen as desirable that in such an important area, that the whole of the UK did it roughly at the same time".

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Jeremy Hunt MP described a kind of memory illusion, but at a departmental level, where the people collectively tried to remember things as they would like them to have been, rather than as they actually were.

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Jeremy Hunt acknowledged in evidence to the Inquiry that the Government would likely lose a vote if the matter for an independent public inquiry was put to the test.

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Jeremy Hunt told the Inquiry of a departmental "memory illusion" whereby people remember things as they would like them to have been

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Jeremy Hunt told the Inquiry that the State had not had an open mind to the issue of a public inquiry.

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Jeremy Hunt told the Inquiry that the government knew an inquiry may recommend large sums of compensation and for that reason did not want one.

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Jeremy Hunt described a reluctance in the NHS to listen to the stories of ordinary people and a view that harm to patients was part of the cost of doing business.

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Within his evidence to the Inquiry Jeremy Hunt explained the Prime Minister preferred equity between those with Hep C and those with HIV

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In oral evidence Lord John Reid reasoned that the quickest way of developing a UK-wide payment scheme for people infected with Hepatitis C was "to do a deal with the Scots and then invite the other two nations to join us".

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Lord John Reid acknowledged that it was accurate to say that Hepatitis C screening could have been introduced earlier than 1991, although he did not have knowledge of this at the time.

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John Reid wanted a UK Scheme, especially an English Scheme, and wanted to work with the other devolved nations on this.

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Once John Reid reached the decision on ex gratia payments, he was not faced with any resistance from officials.

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John Reid's considerations in relation to his decision to reversing the Government's policy on Hepatitis C compensation occurred soon after taking up his role as Secretary of State.

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In oral evidence Professor Aileen Keel confirmed she carried out a weekly general haematology clinic with Dr (later Professor) Christopher Ludlam at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

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In oral evidence Professor Aileen Keel explained the basis for her view that the treatment provided had been the best available in light of medical knowledge at the time.

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In oral evidence Professor Aileen Keel acknowledged that the "best treatment available" line encompassed not only those infected through blood products but also those infected through transfusion, for whom the "very best efforts" of the PFC and BPL were irrelevant.

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Professor Aileen Keel stated in her oral evidence that "In 1984, there was only just the beginnings of the emergence of the possibility that that virus [ie AIDS] could be transmitted by blood products."

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Professor Aileen Keel's oral evidence in relation to non-A non-B Hepatitis was that "If we had known in 1984 what we now know about the impact of non-A, non-B hepatitis, then maybe the choice would have been to choose cryoprecipitate, but we didn't know that then."

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