Letters to Parliament and the Department of Health
 Over many years we have repeatedly written and mailshot  over 1000 MP's facts  related to UK Contaminated HCV Infections.  We even had one MP, who shall be nameless, write back pleading us to stop!  Perhaps the best summary of all the correspondence is the one featuring the excellent Lord Jenkin sadly now deceased.
As background Lord Jenkin attended our Commons Briefing in 2009 and as a former Secretary of State for Health at the height of the crises in the Eighties was the most profoundly moved of any politician I have encountered. I expected opposition or derision and was confronted by a wonderful man in his eighties talking to me after my lecture in tears, saying "Your numbers are compelling. It happened on my watch!".  Being me I said, "Can I have that in writing and can you sign off some searching questions to the current Ministers for Health?" Which he duly did.

So having got this excellent chap on board we proceeded to scrupulously medically reference, see all the little numbers hotlinked to the still online articles and written at the end of the letter, the key published medical data that pointed towards the fact the UK had had a "Industrial Scale" Contaminated Blood Outbreak like the rest of the prison blood harvesting developed world.
 
The reply we got back was the exact wall of silence and mad math of pretending that the level of infections in the Seventies and Eighties was identical to that in September 1991 by which time all Injectors and previously transfused were barred from donating! A Travesty.
 
So Ratrick and I were faced by the old 1991 its not happened prevalence con. I regrouped and re appealed to Glenys to meet me and realise the Department of Health are poorly advising her to be a mouthpiece for the cover up and tried even harder to medically reference the quite obvious facts about "Industrial Scale Contaminated Blood infections.
 

All this basically pointed out yet again, a reoccurring merry go round where the poor politician in a "Yes Minister" way only knows what the Department of Health was telling them. Poor Baroness Glenys Thornton did what all the other politicians ended up doing and cracking up on Patrick and myself and handed the matter over to the Department of Health itself.  Who in their wisdom got a nameless junior customer service person to trot out a few hopeful platitudes about their general liver planning.
 
At this point it occurred to me that unless we found several million to take the Department of Health to Court, they had no interest in saving any lives from contaminated blood HCV infections they had caused or were responsible for from overseas. Even a former Minister in tears of regret and a very caring Baroness Thornton were quite unable to even get them to read their own published facts about transfusions being 2% HCV infectious for decades. Below is the list of MP's contacted who all to some extent played the same ping pong of asking a question of a Department that is very used to applying spin to the answers they get.  The National Liver Strategy they promised above featured a Liver Tsar called Martin Lombard who spent a couple of years planning and then was fired without being able to see any plan in action at all.
Parliamentarians  who have responded very positively to or attended the 6 Hepatitis Asks 3rd March 2009
Sandra Gidley**         	Co Chair Primary & Public Health, Aids,  Cancer, Patient Safety, Penal Affairs, Heptology. Office has cared for nhs hcv.                                                   
Edward O Hara*        	Vice Chairman Haemophilia, Aging
Baroness Masham** 	Vice Chair Patient & Public Health, Vice Chair Safety, Headaches, Cancer, Prison Health, Vice Chair AIDS
Ann Darnborough**  	Green Party founder
Neil Gerrard*            	Hepatology, Migration, Equalities, Patient & Public Involvement , Haemophilia, AIDS, Pharma 
Earl Howe*                 	Opposition Health Spokesman, Abuse investigations
Tony Lloyd*                	Civil liberties
Charlotte Atkins*      	Select committee Health
Dr Des Turner           	Chairman Medical KITS Technology, Patient Safety,
Lord Ramsbotham**	Penal Affairs
Betty Williams            	Commercial Radio, Medical KITS Technology, Penal Affairs, Heamophilia, Cancer, Fibromyalgia
John Baron                 	Patient & Public Involvement
David Borrow MP     	Chairman APPG AIDS
Dr Iddon*                        	Vice Chairman Hepatology, Drug Misuse, Pakistan Aging Cancer Kelvin Hopkins                	Vice Chairman Alcohol, Workplace Violence, Hepatology, Sickle Cell, Pharma Industry, Education
Andrew Love             	Patient & Public Involvement, Hepatology
Stewart Jackson       	Chair Pakistan, Hepatolgy Dropped in 
Oliver Heald              	Patient Safety, Hepatology, Public Standards
Laura Moffat**        	Public Health & Primary Care (needlesticks), AIDS
Phil Willis MP*          	Chairman of the Innovation, Universities Select Committee, Medical research, Communications, Education
John Leech               	Medical KITSTechnology, Patient Safety,
Pater Luff                  	Chair Select Committee Business, Family member died of HCV 
Eric Pickles*            	Sec of State for Communities & local govt***
Tim Yeo*                  	Opposition health minister 2004***
Lord Archer              	written support for the Asks Recommendations
Lord Morris**            	A Dedicated Champion for Factor VIII               
Anne Milton	               Shadow Minister for Health, chair Health Let me know if she can be of  assistance.
Lord Owen**              	has written evidence
Lord Jenkins**           	has written evidence
Boris Johnson**        	Sister cares for transfusion hcv.
Sylvia Heal               	 JP Deputy Speaker
Bill Etherington*
MP’s who have responded via mail & phone to the 6 Asks
Lord Kinden Davies*   	phoned, discussing prison safety testing
Peter Bottomley          	Patient Public Involvement Drooped In 
Andrew Dismore*        	Occupational Safety
Mr Brady MP*                 Cancer
Austin Mitchell
Andrew Lansley MP*    Health
Ann McKechin
Jeremy Hunt MP *                   
Anne Begg                     Primary Care Scottish facts we don’t **
Dr Spink MP *               Heptology Independent MP
Robert Walter              Equalities
Sir Menzies Campbell  UN Global Group
Paul Rowen MP           Workplace violence needlesticks
Eleanor Laing                          Headaches
Alan Johnson* 		phoned  Health
Vince Cable*                    Heptology
Baroness Uddin
David Cameron            (office phoned bereaved)
Anthony Steen             drop in*
Mr Paul Burstow                     Primary Care
Nick Hurd MP*                          Shadow Minister for Charities Prisons
Tim Boswell MP                       Patient Safety
Rob Wilson MP*                       Opposition Whip Education
Don Foster MP
Patrick Hall                               Patient & Public Involvement
Patrick McCormack*                Heamophilia
Ann Cryer                               ME Group husband died liver cancer
6 Asks Mailed MP’s in All Parliamentary Groups.
Baroness Gould                                      Chair Sexual Health Group
Diane Abbott                                           Thalassaniema Major
Eric Illsley                                                Stroke Group
Rosie Cooper                                          Fibromyalgia
Paul Clark                                                Fibromyalgia
Sharon Hodgson                                     Cancer
Janet Dean                                              Headache
Robert Flello                                            Alcohol Group
Lynda Waltho                                          Alcohol Group
Stephen Hesford                                     Ageing Group
Nigel Waterson                                        Ageing
Paul Flynn                                                Ageing
Mr Cruddas                                             Migration
Sarah Teather                                         Migration
John Bercow                                          Migration
Frank Field                                               Balanced Migration
Daniel Kawczynski                                 Balanced Migration
Marsha Singh                                          Pakistan
Gorden Prentice                                     Pakistan
Mr Duddridge                                         Pakistan
Mr Bayley                                                Africa
Stephen O Brein                                     Africa
Martin Caton                                            Equalities
June Morgan                                           Equalities
Nia Griffith                                               Equalities
Russell Brown                                         UN
DR Gavin Strang                                     UN
David Heath                                             UN
Mike Gapes                                             UN
John Battle                                              Global Action
Lord Borrie                                              Consumer Affairs
Linda Gilroy                                             Consumer Affairs
Nigel Griffiths                                          Consumer Affairs & Trading
Edward Garnier                                      Legal & Constitutional Affairs
Andy Slaughter                                       Legal & Constitutional Affairs
Mr Vaz                                                    Legal & Constitutional
David Lammy                                           Legal & Constitutional Affairs
Lord Brennan                                          Legal & Constitutional Affairs
Mike Hancock                                          Occupational Safety              
Ian Davidson                                           Occupational Safety
Paul Truswell                                          Occupational Safety
David Hamilton                                         Occupational Safety
Micheal Clapham                                     Occupational Safety
Baroness Gibson                                    Workplace Violence & Bullying
Dr Richard Taylor                                    Patient & Public Involvement
Joan Humble                                            Patient & Public Involvement
Dr Howard Stoate                                   Primary Care & Public Health
Lord De Mauley                                       Hepatology             
Jim Cousins                                             Hepatology             
Jim Dobbin                                               Hepatology             
Shona Mc Issac                                      Hepatology             
Bob Laxton                                              Hepatology
Fabian Hamilton                                     Education
Mr Derek Wyatt                                       Communications
John Robertson                                       Communications
Barbara Follett                                         Pharmaceutical Industry
Ian Liddell Granger                                 Pharmaceutical Industry
Helen Southworth                                   Prison Health
Lord Corbett                                            Prison Health
Lord Turnburg                                         Medical Research
Baroness Finlay                                      Medical Technology KITS