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Brenda only discovered that Andrew had been infected with HIV accidentally when looking through his notes when he was a hospital inpatient. When the hospital knew and the family did not, Brenda continued to treat Andrew thereby being put at risk herself.

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Parents of a child treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital were not told that he had been infected with HIV - their son, still a child, had been told at an outpatient appointment with Dr Hill; he assumed (understandably) that his parents had already been told, and did not speak to them about it because of that assumption.

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Christine Woolliscroft, whose son Michael was treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital, recalled in a meeting she was told her son was fine. A year and a half later, she was told by Dr Hill that he had HIV. She discovered post-mortem that Michael had been infected with Hepatitis C from a doctor in casual conversation.

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Professor Tedder emphasized in his oral evidence that the use of prisoners for donated blood, particularly in the US, meant that the producer of the product would not know their donor.

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Professor Tedder stated that various UK HIV tests were available by mid July 1984. However, though these were in used in laboratories, there was little widespread knowledge of this at the time.

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Professor Tedder stated he aimed to produce a competitive test that was one step instead of two.

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Professor Tedder told the Inquiry that despite being advised differently, Porton Down decided to develop an antigen using an alternative and unsuccessful method.

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Professor Richard Tedder told the Inquiry the importance of knowing your donors: "unless you know your donor you won't know what transmission of agents they are at risk from".

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In his oral evidence, Lord Jonathan Evans, then chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Inquiry that accountability was central to the democratic process and required openness.

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The Statistics Expert Group told the Inquiry that the cause of death was determined by the person who was filling out the death certificate.

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Professor Tedder and his colleagues were already thinking that they needed to get away from RIA to EIA.

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Professor Charles Vincent, giving evidence as part of the Public Health and Administration Expert Group, observed that "for instance, there are multiple ways of raising concerns in the NHS but it's quite hard to know where you want to go ... It works very variably.

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Dr Dempsey stated that there was "resistance among the haemophilia treaters about the significance of concentrate and the emerging AIDS problem."

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Dr Dempsey commented that he had "no major doubt" or "no real doubt" that AIDS was transmissible by blood or blood products "because any alternative theory didn't really seem to hold water"

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Dr Dempsey mentioned that the best decision would have been to go onto NHS material, as opposed to cryoprecipitate in the 1980s.

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After a child was admitted in 1981 following an accident where cryoprecipitate "failed to do the job that was asked of it on that occasion", Dr Dempsey's "confidence in cryoprecipitate" was shaken.

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In August 1980, cryoprecipitate was used "fairly exclusively" in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children haemophilia unit.

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Dr Dempsey stated that there were no separate annual returns for the royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. The returns were amalgamated with the adult haemophilia centre at the Royal Victoria Hospital and sent to Oxford "as a unified whole."

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In Belfast, children with bleeding disorders were treated at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children until around the age of 14. They were then transferred to the haemophilia centre at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

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According to Dr Dempsey, in regards non-A non-B Hepatitis, around 1980 there was a "general feeling" amongst clinicians that it was not a major concern, but there were patients who did have evidence of chronic liver disease.

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