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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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Within Vaughan Gething's oral evidence to the Inquiry he called the Enhanced Hepatitis Stage 1+ payment an understanding of the hurt that people had already gone through.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Samantha Baker confirmed that by the end of 2020 there had been no significant progress or developments regarding the achievement of parity.

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The move towards greater parity between the four national schemes gathered momentum in March 2021.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Martin Bell confirmed that SIBSS would assist potential beneficiaries to access their medical records during the application process for the scheme by speaking to the GP or health board.

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Dr Walford was clear that the medical stream of the civil servants of the DHSS believed that the likeliest cause of AIDS was an infective agent.

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Dr Diana Walford described the delay in construction of new facilities for PBL production as "unconscionable".

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Dr Walford described the Deputy CMO, Dr Harris, as "exasperated" because of the Ministers decision to defer the eventual decision on whether to build a new laboratory within the NHS.

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Dr Vaughan announced that there would be "no commercial management of Blood Products Laboratory: modernisation programme already underway."

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Dr Walford remembered her frustration about "innumerable and repetitive meetings which generally ended without moving matters forward to any appreciable extent."

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A special health authority was established to take responsibility for the management of the BPL, the PFL in Oxford and the Blood Reference Group Laboratory.

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Dr Walford said that Dr Lane was right to describe the difficulties in meeting the problems of the NBTS as having been "accentuated by the growth in requirement during the 1970s of plasma products, an exercise in production maintained without adequate planning, co-ordination or finance from the outset."

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Regional health authorities were described by Dr Walford as "fiefdoms".

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Dr Walford described the process in deciding to develop BPL as "totally chaotic, protracted and difficult" and "needlessly so".

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Dr Walford described the delays between April 1979, when the Medicines Inspectorate conducted their inspection and condemned the premises operated for BPL as unsuitable for a pharmaceutical company, and the middle of May 1983, when construction began as "unconscionable".

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The estimate of £6-7 million put a stop to any further discussions with Scotland regarding plans for the redevelopment of BPL and was described by Dr Walford as "a sort of bitter blow".

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According to Dr Diana Walford's oral evidence, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was received in the Med IMCD and the expectation would be that it should have been referred to the Med SEB because it concerned blood and blood products.

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Dr Clarke was copied into correspondence as the doctor covering for Dr Diana Walford in Med SEB while Dr Walford was on maternity leave.

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According to Dr Diana Walford's oral evidence, following reading about the case of the baby who contracted AIDS through platelets transfusion she had the sense that AIDS was transmitted through blood and blood products.

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According to Dr Diana Walford's oral evidence, AIDS was one of the primary concerns of Med SEB and Med ICMD.

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