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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker commented that one of the difficulties the Scottish Government faced when seeking changes in levels of assistance from the AHOs, was that any change required all four nations to agree and to identify additional funding.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker stated that while SIBSS was being set up, the Scottish Government made the payments at the new level through the Skipton Fund and MFET from December 2016.

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In their oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker and Mairi Gougeon confirmed that the new scheme expressly remained one for the making of ex gratia payments and were not intended to be compensatory.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Martin Bell said that he didn't see any drawbacks to the self-certification process and that on the assumption that they trusted their members, they didn't think introducing additional bureaucracy, which would potentially slow things down, would work.

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In her oral evidence, Samantha Baker told the Inquiry that parity had not been a prominent part of the regular four nations' meetings until 2019.

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Samantha Baker agreed in her oral evidence to the Inquiry that by mid 2020 there had not been much progress over the previous year as "the UK Government hadn't been able to secure any additional funding."

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The Society was not an organisation in which grassroots usually had any direct influence on what the central body, the Executive Committee, had to say. It was instead governed from the top down.

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The Society placed undue reliance on the views of Professor Bloom who was not only chair of UKHCDO but also a principal point of reference when seeking advice.

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By the time of the meeting on 8 October 1983 the realisation had dawned within the Society membership that a crisis was looming.

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No questions were asked of Professor Bloom despite the Cardiff case as the Society was too trusting of his advice and was further deferential to Reverend Tanner.

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The Executive Committee had not been told that there was now an authoritative report on the possibility of sexual transmission, and Professor Bloom knew but downplayed it as a real risk.

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There may have been input from members of the Medical Advisory Panel which was not passed on by the Society's internal Blood Products Sub-Committee, as arguably it should have been.

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Matt Hancock gave evidence to the Inquiry.

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Matt Hancock described in his evidence to the Inquiry how the schemes were not intended to be compensatory and the same was true for the other three national schemes.

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During oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry Matt Hancock stated that EIBSS was not a compensation scheme but instead a support scheme.

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During oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry William Vineall stated that the Department of Health had intended to make the announcement of additional funding for impacted individuals at the beginning of the Inquiry's oral hearings but that it would also have done so irrespective of the Inquiry.

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During oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry Brendan Brown confirmed that EIBSS did not get involved with obtaining supporting medical records but instead singposted individuals where they could procure them.

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William Vineall stated in his evidence: "we think the testing regime that was established, I think in about 1972, for hepatitis B was sufficient to ensure that people with hepatitis B wouldn't be, you know, subject to the risk of infected blood, and that's why it's never been part of any scheme".

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In Northern Ireland the new scheme expressly remained one for the making of ex gratia payments and were not intended to be compensatory.

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The evidence of Liz Redmond was that the announcement on funding to enable broad parity of annual and lump sum payments between the four national schemes came as something of a surprise.

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