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Professor Aileen Keel suggested in her oral evidence that the "untenability" of the no compensation position arose from the fact that there was an increasing degree of lobbying from organisations such as the Haemophilia Society.

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Susan Deacon did not want to sign the pre-prepared letter of rejection for the Haemophilia Society's claims for financial support for its members who had been infected with Hepatitis C, without at least meeting delegates from the Society.

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Susan Deacon told the Inquiry how at this point she had to examine properly what had happened in the 1980s around heat treatment and wished to set out the facts "as best we could in the public domain."

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Susan Deacon's office advised that discussions around compensation were very much a PR exercise and it was unlikely to ever be paid. In her oral evidence, Susan Deacon refuted using these words herself.

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In her oral evidence, Susan Deacon said that devolution and the fact the issues involved a "complexity of UK-wide issues" meant that at the time she did not see a public inquiry "as a means to progress an issue"

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In his evidence to the Inquiry, Lord Michael Forsyth agreed the Department of Health should have consulted the Scottish Office and Scottish plaintiffs sooner about changing its decision to settle the HIV Litigation.

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Michael Forsyth stated that during his time as Minister of State Whitehall and The Scottish Office were 'one Government'.

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Lord Forsyth described the role of officials as administering agreed policies and ensuring that ministers were alerted to any concerning issues. He expected significant matters that required ministerial decision-making to be "drawn to their attention."

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During oral evidence Michael Chisholm accepted that non-A non-B Hepatitis was not an unknown risk.

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Prof Marc Turner, SNBTS Director, wrote their final submission with the assistance of SNBTS senior management, on behalf of SNBTS and the Scottish Territorial Health Boards, in an attempt by the organisation to "speak as directly as possible, not only to the infected and affected but to everyone affected by and having an interest in SNBTS's work."

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The Prime Minister told the Inquiry that the work on compensation was not concluded and that no decisions had been made: the Government did not yet have options that were ready to implement upon the conclusion of the Inquiry.

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When asked whether the Government's response was "good enough" given the knowledge that people die each week, the Prime Minister answered that it was reasonable to allow the Inquiry to conclude its work.

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The Prime Minister acknowledged people had suffered a layer of injustices and continued to suffer.

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The Prime Minister told the Inquiry that it was normal not to make final decisions until an Inquiry had concluded.

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The Chancellor told the Inquiry he appreciated that from the outside it felt the Government was working slowly, but that he was satisfied the Government was working fast to resolve the issue of compensation as quickly as possible.

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The Chancellor told the Inquiry that it was "right to the taxpayers" for the Government to wait to see the full context before making a decision on how compensation would work.

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Record keeping was inaccurate in the case of a widow where her husband's first HIV diagnosis was listed as October 1985 whereas the ELISA test indicated this was August 1984.

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Speaking about a cover-up, Mrs AJ, giving evidence, said: "If this had happened on one day, if a plane had dropped out of the sky killing everyone on board (only in this case it would have been six planes) or if a liner had hit an iceberg (in this case it would have been two liners), something would have been done immediately."

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Mr AK, speaking of his haemophilia centre said: "They were out of their depth...it just seemed a bit weird, the director of haemophilia was trying to give us this drug [AZT] no-one knew very much about as a trial and it was just all very scary."

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Identical entries were recorded in the medical records of a widow's husband and father-in-law. The two men shared the same name.

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