Campaign Diary

On 3rd April 2024, Jason appeared on Capital FM.

On 28th March 2024, the Department of Health’s court appeal, seeking to block one of Jason’s freedom of information requests on infected blood compensation, was dismissed.

On 22nd March 2024, Jason appeared on the Neil Oliver show on GB News.

On 8th March 2024, Jason spoke about the infected blood scandal at Open Democracy’s Freedom of Information Conference.

On 7th March 2024, Jason gave an interview to BBC 3 Counties radio.

On 7th March 2024, Jason appeared on the Rosanna Lockwood show on TalkTV.

On 28th February 2024, Jason contributed to a Financial Times article about infected blood scandal compensation.

On 27th February 2024, Jason represented Factor 8 in a legal appeal brought by the Department of Health over one of his freedom of information requests whereby DHSC sought to challenge the decision of the Information Commissioner. Judgement in the case was reserved for four weeks.

On 26th February 2024, Jason appeared on the Jeremy Kyle & Rosie Wright show on TalkTV.

On 25th January 2024, Jason appeared in an episode of the ITV Tonight show, talking about the infected blood scandal and the need for justice.

On 24th January 2024, Jason attended the APPG on Haemophilia & Contaminated Blood meeting which was held in Portcullis House.

On 23rd January 2024, Jason spoke about the Infected Blood Scandal on BBC Radio Surrey.

On 17th January 2024, Jason spoke to Channel 4 News about the infected blood scandal.

On 14th January 2024, Jason wrote an article about the infected blood scandal for The Independent.

On 14th January 2024, Jason and Des Collins spoke to LBC Radio about the campaign for infected blood products justice.

On 13th January 2024, Jason spoke to Times Radio about infected blood products and how every bottle was infected with Hepatitis C.

On 12th January 2024, Jason contributed to an article for RFI (Radio France Internationale) about the infected blood scandal.

On 10th January 2024, Jason contributed to an article in The Guardian about the Post Office & Infected Blood Scandal.

On 12th December 2023, Jason contributed to an article in The Mirror about those excluded from interim compensation payments.

On 7th December 2023, LBC published an op-ed by Jason about the vote which took place on 4th December.

On 5th December 2023, a protest organised by Jason took place in Westminster. Jason, along with other campaigners and MP’s delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street which called on the PM to act on the Infected Blood Inquiry recommendations. Jason also attended a Co-APPG meeting with MP’s in parliament that morning.

On 4th December 2023, Jason attended the house of commons vote on New Clause 27 (Infected Blood Compensation body) which defeated the government.

From 26th November - 4th December 2023, Jason lobbied MP’s to support MP Dame Diana Johnson’s Infected Blood Compensation amendments to the Victims & Prisoners Bill. Jason contacted every sitting MP who was not in government.

On 21st November 2023, Jason and Factor 8 members met with shadow cabinet minister Nia Griffith MP to discuss the campaign.

On 1st November 2023, Jason attended an Infected Blood Inquiry meeting.

On 23rd October 2023, Jason met with conservative MP James Grundy to discuss the infected blood scandal and inquiry.

On 23rd October 2023, Jason took part in a discussion about the infected blood scandal on BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week programme.

On 24th September 2023, evidence supplied by Jason about Sir Chris Wormald and Peter Wormald’s connection to the infected blood scandal was published in The Telegraph.

On 22nd September 2023, a letter written by Jason about Infected Blood and Post Office compensation was published in The Telegraph.

On 22nd September 2023, Jason published an episode of the Factor 8 podcast with Cara McGoogan, author of The Poison Line.

On 20th September 2023, Jason attended the book launch of The Poison Line.

On 8th September 2023, Jason published a story revealing how the Cabinet Office had broken the Infected Blood Inquiry’s General Restriction Order relating to the second interim report.

On 4th August 2023, Jason wrote to Government ministers outlining 15 reasons why families should be pre-registered for compensation.

On 25th July 2023, Jason spoke to Radio 4’s The World Tonight programme.

On 24th July 2023, Jason wrote and delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street along with others impacted by the scandal.

On 24th July 2023, Jason spoke to LBC News about the Infected Blood Inquiry.

On 3rd July 2023, Jason spoke to podcast host Angela Walker, with Des Collins, about the infected blood scandal and compensation.

On 22nd June 2023, Evidence obtained by Jason about the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service was featured in a BBC Article.

On 18th June 2023, Documents obtained by Jason demonstrating compensation unfairness were featured in the Daily Mail.

On 4th June 2023, Jason wrote an article for The Metro about the infected blood inquiry and compensation.

On 2nd June 2023, Jason’s campaign advice was featured in The Big Issue.

On 1st June 2023, Jason took part in a ThinkIn discussion about infected blood campaigning hosted by Tortoise Media.

On 30th May 2023, Jason took part in an episode of the SenseMaker podcast about the contaminated blood scandal.

On 24th May 2023, Jason was awarded the Campaigner of the Year 2023 award.

On 17th May 2023, Jason wrote to the chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, urging him to hold further evidence hearings relating to the government response to compensation.

On 10th May 2023, Jason attended the Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood APPG.

On 20th April 2023, Jason co-authored an article for The Times Red Box.

On 7th March 2023, Jason attended an in-person meeting with the Paymaster General, Jeremy Quin, to discuss the infected blood compensation framework.

On 6th March 2023, Jason and members of Factor 8 met with the Shadow Paymaster General, Fleur Anderson, to discuss the infected blood compensation framework.

On 28th February 2023, Jason attended the Public Accountability Bill APPG.

On 27th February 2023, Jason wrote to Bayer, asking them to acknowledge the infected blood scandal in the history section of their website.

During January 2023, Jason helped with research for a PoliticsHome article.

During December 2022 and January 2023, Jason contributed significantly to the final submissions of Collins Solicitors to the Infected Blood Inquiry.

On 15th December 2022, Authors of the Infected Blood Debate Pack wrote to Jason confirming that the inaccurate information he had raised on 6th December 2022 would be corrected.

On 8th December 2022, Jason wrote to the Paymaster General asking that he provide on update on the Infected Blood Compensation Framework before Christmas.

On 6th December 2022, Jason wrote to the parliamentary authors of an Infected Blood Debate Pack regarding inaccurate information it contained, stemming from the government.

During November and December 2022, Jason worked on closing submissions to be made to the Infected Blood Inquiry via Collins Solicitors.

On 25th November 2022, PoliticsHome published an article about the Infected Blood Inquiry featuring contributions from Jason.

On 1st November 2022, Jason addressed the launch of the Public Accountability All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

On 20th September 2022, Jason talked about the contaminated blood scandal campaign on Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd’s Reasons To Be Cheerful podcast.

On 19th July 2022, Jason spoke at the Hillsborough Law Now launch event.

On 5th July 2022, Jason wrote an op-ed for Aljazeera about the contaminated blood scandal.

On 29th June 2022, Jason wrote an op-ed for the Daily Mail about the contaminated blood scandal and the evidence of John Major to the inquiry.

On 28th June 2022, Jason gave an interview on TalkTV.

On 31st May 2022, Jason wrote an op-ed for OpenDemocracy about the contaminated blood scandal.

On 18th May 2022, The Telegraph published a story, based on evidence supplied by Jason, regarding the underhanded government tactics used against HIV victims of the contaminated blood scandal.

On 7th April 2022, Jason co-signed a letter along with various MP’s and media editors calling for greater enforcement of transparency laws.

On 4th February 2022, iNews published evidence provided by Jason about the 1990 Haemophilia HIV litigation.

On 16th December 2021, Jason sent a letter (co-signed by some 200 others) outlining principles for Sir Robert Francis QC’s compensation framework study.

Through October & November 2021, Jason featured in The Telegraph’s Bed of Lies podcast which examined the contaminated blood scandal across a 7-part series.

On 29th September 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work won the 2021 International Emmy Award for News & Current Affairs.

On 19th August 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work was nominated for an International Emmy Award for News & Current Affairs.

On 12th August 2021, Factor 8 released a short documentary film by Jason called Cryospiracy.

On 22nd July 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work was shortlisted for Best Current Affairs Documentary and Best History Documentary awards by the Grierson Trust.

On 11th June 2021, Jason gave evidence in person to the Infected Blood Inquiry.

On 7th June 2021, The Guardian published a story about the infected blood scandal following documents unearthed and provided by Jason.

On 27th May 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work was short-listed for Best Documentary Programme at the Broadcast Awards.

On 13th May 2021, Jason & Factor 8 were awarded runner-up for the David & Goliath award at the Sheila McKechnie Foundation National Campaigner Awards.

On 16th March 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work was short-listed for Best Documentary at the Amnesty International Media Awards.

On 13th February 2021, Jason’s FOI encounters with the Cabinet Office were covered in The Guardian.

On 1st February 2021, the In Cold Blood documentary which chronicled Jason’s work was short-listed for the Best Current Affairs RTS Television Award.

On 27th December 2020, the Daily Mail published an article referencing General Medical Council e-mails which were supplied by Jason.

On 10th December 2020, OpenDemocracy ran a story about Jason’s FOI battles showing the impact of the Cabinet Office clearing house.

On 29th November 2020, Jason co-wrote an article for the Sunday Mirror about the Infected Blood Inquiry and Dr Chris Ludlam.

On 16th October 2020, Jason co-wrote and article for the Ham & High newspaper about the Infected Blood Inquiry.

On 27th September 2020, Jason featured in the International Emmy-Award winning ITV Exposure documentary “In Cold Blood”.

On 21st September 2020, The Guardian reported on blood scandal FOI refusals supplied by Jason.

On 15th July 2020, an article co-written by Jason was published by Huff Post UK. It drew security comparisons between the Grenfell Inquiry and the Infected Blood Inquiry.

In April 2020, Jason wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, pressing for urgent action following a meeting at the Cabinet Office.

Between March and August 2020, Jason hosted a series of live stream interviews relating to the contaminated blood scandal. Guests included Dr Abraham Karpas, Mike Papantonio, Baroness Margaret Ritchie and others.

On 23rd February 2020, An article co-written by Jason was published by the Mirror group. It covered evidence that a top UK doctor praised an official in France who was jailed over Factor VIII.

On 28th January 2020, Jason attended a meeting with Ministers and government officials at the Cabinet Office. He put forward Factor 8’s proposal for the government to begin working with the impacted community on a framework for compensation, before the Inquiry reports. A full chronology of the campaign for an Infected Blood Compensation Framework can be found here.

In January 2020, evidence circulated by Jason to the national press was covered extensively, it highlighted how Scotland could have used spare capacity to avoid US imports of Factor VIII concentrate.

On 7th October 2019, the national press widely reported on evidence from 1974 about the contaminated blood scandal which was obtained and shared by Jason.

On 6th October 2019, Jason co-authored an article in The Mirror.

On 19th August 2019, RT aired a documentary called “Bad Blood” in which Jason featured and was a main contributor.

On 10th August 2019 Jason sent a letter to the Prime Minister and devolved nations which was co-signed by almost 300 people infected and affected, urging the establishment of compensation.

On 23rd June 2019 the Sunday Express published an article about evidence provided by Jason relating to HIV infected Haemophiliacs being “rail-roaded” into ending legal action in 1990.

On 2nd June 2019 the Mail on Sunday published an article about a letter Jason had found which was from John Major to Margaret Thatcher urging not to compensate victims.

On 13th May 2019 The Times ran a story about Jason’s investigation into the Government’s ACVSB files.

On 7th May 2019 The Guardian ran a story about the Department of Health’s flawed discovery exercise based upon research supplied by Jason.

On 29th April 2019 Jason lent his support to Australian victims / families in an article in The Herald (Australia) ahead of the UK Infected Blood Inquiry hearings.

On 11th March 2019 the Daily Mail ran a story covering documents and research Jason had supplied, it showed the Government secretly admitting fault for the Contaminated Blood Scandal in 1990.

On 14th February 2019 Sir Brian Langstaff said he was grateful to Jason for bringing to the attention of the Inquiry the fact that NHS England has failed to circulate a document retention notice.

On 11th February 2019 it was widely reported that Jason had obtained an internal Government audit showing almost a thousand files connected to contaminated blood issues had been “checked-out” of the Department of Health. Jason did interviews on BBC One Breakfast, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Scotland on the day.

On 1st December 2018 (World AIDS Day) an article written by Jason was published in The Huffington Post entitled “The Contaminated Blood Scandal And The Forgotten Victims Of AIDS”.

On 3rd November 2018 The Telegraph published a story linking a Revlon health care firm to the contaminated blood scandal on their Front Page with evidence supplied to them by Jason.

On 21st October 2018 The Daily Mail published a story detailing how Hepatitis C was covered-up and kept secret from HIV infected Haemophiliacs with evidence supplied by Jason. It was their Front Page Top Story and was also featured on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire show.

On 24th, 25th & 26th September 2018 Jason attended the Opening Hearings of the Infected Blood Inquiry in London.

On 3rd September 2018 Jason’s application to the Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry for Factor 8 to become a Core Participant was accepted.

On 17th May 2018 MySociety published an article detailing Jason's hunt for evidence.

On 25th October 2017 Sky News broke the story of how new Cabinet Office papers showed a cover-up which had been discovered and supplied to them by Jason.

On 26th September 2017 a Group Legal Order was granted by Senior Master Fontaine in the case of "Jason Evans & Others V Secretary State for Health".

On 23rd July 2017, It was reported that Ken Clarke had removed certain comments about the scandal from his autobiography following separate legal action brought by Jason.

On 15th July 2017, Jason sent a letter co-signed by more than 250 people from the affected community to the Prime Minister and Department of Health outlining key principles the Inquiry must adopt, including having statutory powers and not being handled by the Department of Health. Both of these requests were subsequently met.

On 11th July 2017, a public inquiry was announced. Speaking in parliament that day about Jason, Dame Diana Johnson DBE said: “he has been instrumental in generating recent news coverage in the Daily Mail article and elsewhere”. Health Minister Philip Dunne, when announcing the Inquiry to the House of Commons, said: “In the light of those concerns and of reports of new evidence and of allegations of potential criminality, we think that it is important to understand the extent of what is claimed and the wider issues that arise. I am pleased to be able to confirm to the House that the Government intend to call an inquiry into the events that led to so many people being infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C through NHS-supplied blood or blood products.”

On 9th July 2017, Jason appeared on Sky News, calling for a Public Inquiry.

On 9th July 2017, Jason appeared on LBC Radio, calling for a Public Inquiry.

On 9th July 2017, Jason contributed to a Sunday Times article concerning a cross-party letter calling for a Public Inquiry and focusing on the evidence unearthed by Jason and covered in The Daily Mail earlier that week.

On 6th July 2017, the Oxford Mail covered the news of the “Jason Evans & Ors” group litigation.

On 6th July 2017, the Daily Mail published an article focusing on growing pressure on Theresa May to launch a public inquiry, following the evidence published two days beforehand supplied by Jason.

On 5th July 2017, the government were notified of the “Jason Evans & Ors” group litigation.

On 4th July 2017, evidence unearthed and presented by Jason was featured on the front page of the Daily Mail newspaper. The story was also featured on the Sky News Press Preview and covered elsewhere.

On 4th July 2017 Collins Law lodged a Group Litigation Order “Jason Evans & Ors” on behalf of over 400 people with the High Court against the Government. The Times Link.

In May / June 2017 Jason highlighted damning evidence which showed that even after the Department of Health said that there was conclusive evidence that the AIDS Virus was in Factor VIII, they hid this knowledge from patients for almost a year. ITV Link. Express Link.

On 10th May 2017 Jason featured in BBC Panorama "Contaminated Blood: The Search for The Truth" where his legal claim first became public knowledge. Interest in Jason’s legal claim grew and Collins Solicitors began to take on more clients.

On 5th May 2017, Ken Clarke agreed to make a change to comments about the scandal in his book following Jason’s proposed legal action through Bell Lax Solicitors.

On 19th April 2017 the Department of Health were notified of Jason’s intention to bring forth a legal claim, via Collins Solicitors, in relation to death of Jonathan Evans, Jason’s father.

On 6th April 2017, Jason notified former Health Minister Ken Clarke of his attention to bring a legal claim (via Bell Lax Solicitors) over false comments Clarke had made about the scandal in his autobiography “Kind Of Blue”.

On 3rd April 2017, Jason met with Collins Solicitors and provided evidence to them that he believed could get the contaminated blood scandal back into court. Shortly after, Jason became their first client in relation to the issue.

On 1st February 2017, Jason delivered a speech in parliament, at an event organised by Andy Burnham, about the contaminated blood scandal to a number of MP’s, Peers, journalists, lawyers and others.

From 2016, Jason began searching for a legal team to bring forth a legal action against the government over the contaminated blood scandal using the evidence he had gathered.

In September 2016, Jason hosted and organised the UK Premier of the American documentary film “Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale”. A speech was given at the event by Lord David Owen.

On 12th April 2016, documentary evidence relating to the contaminated blood scandal was provided by Jason to MP’s and read out in the House of Commons main chamber during a parliamentary debate.

Throughout 2016, Jason worked with BBC Panorama on an episode about the contaminated blood scandal (which would air in May 2017).

In 2016, Jason began to establish the Factor 8 campaign.

In 2015, Jason began to investigate the contaminated blood scandal and this work continued into 2016.