AIDS (Hansard, 12 January 1988)

§ 72. Mr. Barry Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what advice and assistance his Department has given to the Haemophilia Society in administering the special trust fund for haemophiliacs with the AIDS virus.

§ Mr. Newton
Officials are working closely with officers of the Haemophilia Society on the arrangements to establish a special trust fund from which financial assistance can be given to those haemophiliacs infected with HIV and to their dependants.
I hope that this work will be completed shortly and so enable the Government to pay to the trust fund the £10 million I announced in my statement to the House on 16 November.

§ Mr. Yeo
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will meet the president of the Royal College of Physicians for the purpose of discussing measurement of the prevalence of HIV infection.

§ Mr. Newton
We have no plans to do so at the moment.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the latest figures for the number of AIDS cases in(a) the North West regional health authority and (b) the Mersey regional health authority.

§ Mr. Newton
The number of AIDS cases reported to the communicable disease surveillance centre at the end of December 1987 was published by the Department yesterday. A copy of the figures is in the Library.