§ Mr. Terry FieldsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if, pursuant to the answer in theOfficial Report, 7 December, column 369, he will list private sector organisations which have received blood from National Health Service sources; and what costs were recovered for collection, processing, handling and transporting blood.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation on individual non-National Health Service hospitals which have received blood from the National Health Service is not held centrally. Charges made to the private sector to recover the costs to the national blood transfusion service of collection, processing, handling and transport of blood amounted to £1,846,123 for the financial year 1987–88, and a provisional figure of £1,980,647 for 1988–89.