§ 21. Miss Fookesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the possibility of requiring suitable offenders to become blood donors as part of the repayment of their debt to society.
§ Miss FookesWill the Minister reconsider that answer, or at least consider this suggestion as an alternative under community service order projects?
§ Mr. JohnNo. The voluntary donation of blood is the principle upon which the National Transfusion Service has been based, and it is a principle that we would hot wish to change. However, I notice that the latter-day Portia has reversed "The Merchant of Venice". The Original Portia wanted flesh without blood: the hon. Lady wants blood without flesh.