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Dr Rejman had responded to Anita James with his concerns and his disagreement with counsel's advice on the matter.

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In a memo from Dr Rejman to John Canavan, he expressed his views on compensation for infected and affected persons including wives who had put themselves at risk against medical advice and having cut off points for claims.

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Richard Gutowski confirmed in his written statement his concerns and comments had fed into Charles Dobson's submission about the HIV litigation.

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When pressed during oral evidence Richard Gutowski had said that his view was similar to that of officials who would accordingly advise strongly against an out of court settlement in the HIV/haemophiliacs litigation.

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Linda Page had been assigned a specific project following the publication of the "Self-Sufficiency in Blood Products in England and Wales: A Chronology from 1973 to 1991" which was published in 2006.

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The project objectives for Linda Page to follow were to "Assess and report on documents relating to previous Government policy on the safe use of imported and domestic blood products during the period 1970 to 1985 when BPL commenced general issue of 8Y heat-treated factor VIII. Specifically the inactivation of blood products for NANBH."

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The "Independent Public Inquiry Report on NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products" had stated that the Department of Health needed to be able to interact with an inquiry chaired by Lord Archer of Sandwell (the "Archer Inquiry").

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In an email exchange from Charles Lister he had noted that documents kept by private offices were never held onto when there was a change in government and either handed back or shredded.

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Charles Lister had explained to Zubeda Seedat that "Unfortunately, none of the key submissions to Ministers about self sufficiency from the 70s/early 80s appear to have survived".

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Charles Lister confirmed in an email to Zubeda Seedat that the self sufficiency report had not included investigation into into the destruction of Lord Owen's papers.

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In an email Charles Lister provided some insight into Lord Owen's "allegation about pulped papers" and how the government would not keep papers after a change and so they were most likely shredded.

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In a memo Richard Gutowski noted that official papers (namely, "the key submissions to Ministers about self sufficiency") had also been destroyed.

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In a written statement to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Zubeda Seedat confirmed that the role had been a higher executive officer within the Blood Policy Team.

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In a written statement, Zubeda Seedat confirmed that many freedom of access searches had been required as well as searching for documents required for the project that Linda Page had been working on in regard to self-sufficiency.

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In an email exchange between Michelle Lucas and Andrew Faulkner it was stated that questions had come from a Freedom of Information request.

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In a briefing paper on the Freedom of Information request it had given an explanation that papers marked for public interest immunity during the discovery process on the HIV litigation had been destroyed in error at some time in the mid 1990s.

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An email from Mike Patrick to Zubeda Seedat confirmed that it was not unlikely given the duration of time that the documents requested in the Freedom of Information request had been destroyed considering the fact that litigation had been settled over 15 years ago.

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Charles Lister and Anita James concluded that, following the discovery that the documents had been destroyed, she would say an audit had been done by a junior official at the Department of Health who no longer worked there.

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Lord Owen wrote a letter asking about outcomes from the Burgin report but Richard Gutowski noted in a memo that he did not think that the Self-Sufficiency Report had been set up to address Lord Owen's concerns that his papers had been pulped.

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Michelle Haywood and William Connon emailed to explore the possibility of further searches of records at archives.

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