§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated annual cost of administering the blood transfusion service; and approximately how many persons per annum (a) give blood and (b) receive it.
§ Dr. VaughanIn 1979–80 expenditure on the National Blood Transfusion Service in England and Wales, including the central blood laboratories, was £31.4 million. I regret that information is not available about the number of donors in any given year or the number of recipients, but in 1979 the service collected almost 2 million donations of blood.