§ Mr. HavardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many years in retrospect the Government will ban recipients of blood from donating blood in the future; and when he will publish his findings on this issue. [86268]
§ Ms BlearsThe Government's advisory committee on the microbiological safety of blood and tissues for transplantation asked the Department's economics and operational research division to assess the impact of excluding transfusion recipients from donating blood on possible secondary infections of variant CJD, assuming blood to be infective. This risk assessment is still in progress and consequently no decision has been taken into the possible exclusion of transfusion recipients giving blood.