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According to Dr Gamal Gabra's evidence to the Inquiry, the Glasgow Regional Transfusion Centre was producing cryoprecipitate at maximum capacity and could not have increased production.

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According to Dr Gamal Gabra's evidence to the Inquiry, the Glasgow Regional Transfusion Centre provided donor leaflets with information on AIDS. These leaflets were created by Dr Brian McClelland.

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Dr Frank Boulton gave oral evidence to the Inquiry that it was part of his job to go round the hospitals, talking to the consultants and the laboratory staff as well encouraging them to cut down on the use of blood for the benefit of the patients.

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Dr Boulton told the Inquiry that he felt there was an ethical need to introduce Hepatitis C screening at the earliest opportunity, and that it was shameful that "the UK was among the latest countries in Europe" to introduce testing.

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Dr Frank Boulton, in oral evidence, stated that somewhere between the ages of 14 and 18 a boy would transfer from Alder Hey to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary.

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Dr Brian McClelland stated that the thinking in defining the group as "Homosexual men" was that nobody knew what was meant by "multiple partners." This could have meant any number from two, to a lot higher. The phrase also did not specify the time period.

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Dr Brian McClelland told the Inquiry that the wording in the press release was quite inconsistent with his own view of the risks and that he thought the wording was "misleading and falsely reassuring."

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Dr Morris McClelland confirmed in his oral evidence that in Northern Ireland there was an Advisory Committee on Blood Safety

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Table showing annual consumption of Commercial Factor Concentrates.

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The Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, was opposed to a compensation scheme or payments, largely on the basis that they would set a precedent, especially since his view was that no fault had been demonstrated.

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In his oral evidence to the Inquiry, Alan Milburn said: "I think what happens is that some things do just get set in stone, history, which is malleable because it is subject to interpretation, it somehow or other at some point becomes set in stone and that may be for good reasons, maybe because actually the history is not contested. The problem here is that the history was contested."

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Carol Grayson had written to Alan Milburn about holding a public inquiry but he did not personally see this letter.

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Alan Milburn told the Inquiry that there had been a view in the Department that 'the facts were established'

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Dr Rowena Jecock confirmed that the Department of Health did not have sight of the Archer Inquiry report before publication.

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In oral evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry, Dr Jecock discussed the options to increase annual payments had been based on what was affordable and no assessment of need.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Dr Rowena Jecock described long standing lines as becoming embedded or hard wired into ones mindset, and accepted that there were occasions when there should have been more criticism.

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Duncan Macniven spoke of "a great deal of executive devolution to the Scottish Office" prior to the creation of the Scottish Parliament.

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Sir Robert Francis QC gave oral evidence to the Inquiry.

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In his oral evidence Andy Burnham stated that he felt the starting point should have been about the people and what they needed and that he did not consider that the Government had made a positive response and that there had been defensiveness and stonewalling.

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Anita James understood the document retention policy to involve retaining and marking documents for review in 20-25 years if they were important, contained policy review or had historical importance.

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