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It was stated regarding a Freedom of Information request that the Departmental Records Office had certificates of destruction but that they doubted they would be useful because they only gave the weight of the papers collected and destroyed.

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A Freedom of Information request posed a question why an inexperienced staff member had been permitted to make decisions to destroy sensitive and important files.

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Letter from Patricia Hewitt to Charles Clarke stated that papers relating to the treatment of haemophilia patients and blood safety should not have been destroyed, but could not provide an explanation as to why they had been.

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In an internal memo it was stated that only half of the HIV discovery documents had been sourced.

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Ruth McEwen confirmed to Dr Rejman that the SOL had a complete set of HIV discovery files.

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Dr Rejman provided a list of the documents to Ruth McEwen that had been disclosed in the HIV litigation.

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The joint written statement of William Vineall and Lorraine Jackson noted that there was a file gap of 44 documents in relation to HIV discovery.

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Ruth McEwen stated in a letter to Dr Rejman and Mr Pudlo that she "would like to put Mr Pudlo and CA OPU colleagues on notice that if the claims [Hepatitis C] are to proceed discovery will have to be done."

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Ruth McEwen wrote to Dr Rejman asking for clarification regarding who would be conducting the discovery of the CA OPU2 files.

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Dr Rejman wrote to Ruth McEwen stating that it was "wholly inappropriate and wasteful of resources for any further discovery to be undertaken until we were certain that something would come of the HCV haemophilia case."

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In a letter from Ruth McEwen to Dr Rejman and Mr Guiness it was stated that "Dr Rejman agreed that he would prune the HIV discovery documents removing obviously irrelevant documents" and that Ruth McEwen planned to create a second discovery list of "missing documents which cannot be located at CAOU or SOLB4".

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Tables show that a number of files related to the Hepatitis C discovery could not be found.

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Charles Lister was the head of the blood policy unit at the Department of Health from 1998 - 2003.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry regarding the decision making in the Department of Health, Charles Lister explained that he was not sure whether he could have done anything differently and that GEB documents should not have "been marked for destruction at all".

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In his written statement to the Inquiry Lord Crisp stated that that he could not recall having a meeting with Lord Jenkin on 13 April 2005 and that there was no suggestion that the destruction of records "was the result of a deliberate decision in the sense of anyone knowingly acting outside Departmental policy."

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In oral evidence Justin Fenwick QC stated that the idea that staff "should have allowed documents to go missing was intensely frustrating".

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Lord Peter Fraser of Carmyllie gave his support to the creation of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissue for Transplantation.

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The Earl of Arran gave his support to replace the Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood with the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissue for Transplantation.

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In a memo from Dr Rejman on the HIV haemophilia litigation it was stated that "Among the papers will be a significant amount of discussion regarding NANB (hepatitis C) which we might not wish to have in the public domain at the present time or in the near future."

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In oral evidence to the Inquiry Dr Rejman stated that he went through the official GEB files and that after photocopying them David Burrage "presumably would have sent the files back to DRO".

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