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In a meeting between Kenneth Clarke, Lord Glenarthur and officials regarding donor leaflets it was noted that a press notice should "repeat that there was no question of donors being quizzed about their sexual habits" and the main objective "was to minimise any damage to the transfusion service".

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It was noted the DHSS knew of 20 cases of AIDS in England & Wales, including two people with haemophilia who had both received American Factor *.

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In a memo from Malcolm Harris to Alun Williams, it was noted that the health circular to accompany the publication of the AIDS leaflet needed "to be issued fast".

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In his statement to the Inquiry John Rutherford, higher executive officer in the blood policy team, did not recall sending or being instructed to send files for destruction and denied that it was his handwriting on the file dockets.

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The Department of Health's internal audit review on Hepatitis C litigation, dated April 2000, was corrected.

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Laurence George, an experienced and qualified auditor, was assigned to conduct the internal audit review on Hepatitis C litigation swiftly, with a "focus on lessons for the future".

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In his statement to the Inquiry, Laurence George stated that it was not custom and practice within internal audits to interview staff who had retired or left the Department.

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Anita James provided an update to the Minister, Tom Sackville, and reported that Dr Rejman had "sent me a list of documents covering the three years [1989-1991]. They run into some 14 volumes."

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In her statement to the Inquiry, Anita James was unable to recall if 14 volumes of documents covering the years 1989 to 1991 were ever provided to her by Dr Rejman.

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Anita James moved departments and handed over to Ruth McEwan. Her reasons for leaving were significant issues at work in terms of workload and bullying by her manager.

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Anita James was referring to both HIV litigation files and ACVSB minutes in GEB/1, when referring to litigation files she had searched for in relation to another case but subsequently found they were destroyed.

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Anita Jones described haphazard file keeping in SOLB4 within the Solicitor's Division in her written statement, with files being kept in rooms and papers not being put in registered files.

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Anita Jones stated that when it emerged in early 2000 that files were missing, she had "entirely forgotten" that there had been a minute nearly 5 years earlier from Dr Rejman where he mentioned the destruction of folders.

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Dr Rejman held files relating to HCV and haemophilia litigation which he had sent to Anita James.

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In relation to documents that Anita James was seeking in order to deal with hepatitis litigation, Dr Rejman stated that as agreed, he did not intend to go through the full discovery list prepared at the time.

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Anita James acknowledged that it should have been ensured that files were retained. She regretted that she "did not act so as [to] make sure that other files which had been marked for destruction were not in fact destroyed."

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Anita James stated that she was "having to endure a working environment which by today's standards would be viewed as entirely unacceptable." She recalled "finding it difficult even simply to go to work."

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Anita James stated that she understood that if papers were considered to be important, she would "put something like 25 years on for -- 20 years, 25 years for review, and then, again, destruction would be decided upon after that."

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Anita James accepted that when she was told that GEB/1 volume 4 had been destroyed, "we should have insisted that files were better looked after" and that she, David Burrage and Dr Rejman should have ensured that those involved with the management of those files understood their importance.

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Anita James confirmed it did not appear that the registered files had been retrieved from the DRO at any time before January 2000 and there was no blanket request across the Department of Health to find any relevant files.

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