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William Connon told the Chief Medical Officer that 92 files at the Departmental Records Office in Nelson had been identified as of possible interest; these were scanned for content relating to NANB and ten files identified for further review. He also noted that some documents previously thought destroyed or mislaid had been located. These were documents that were the subject of non-disclosure during the HIV litigation.

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The progress report of the Page Review for October 2006 - January 2007 recorded that additional documents had been identified in December 2006 and had now been placed in eight registered files.

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The action plan for January 2007 recorded that ten files of recently located Wellington House documents were to be reviewed, along with 28 files from the Departmental Records Office in Nelson.

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In July 2008 further files still were found (unorganised) which contained documents from the time of the HIV litigation, and documents from the 1970-1985 that had been removed or copied from the original files in order to be organised for discovery prior to the litigation.

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The significance of the newly found files was noted because they included litigation documents and documents from 1970-85 that were not in any other files. The plan was to inventory the papers and cross-check whether they had already been released or not.

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Documents that were found were filed into new registered files with the locations of the files being noted and the documents that were still missing.

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Expert witness reports written for the Department of Health for the HIV litigation were also found.

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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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