HC Deb 08 February 1990 vol 166 c772W
Mr. Alfred Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his reply of 1 February, if he will now provide information on the employment prospects, insurance and mortgage status of people who acquired AIDS from blood transfusions under the National Health Service.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

[holding answer 6 February 1990]In my reply of 18 January 1990 to the right hon. Member at column405 I pointed out that haemophiliacs are a group of people who by virtue of their haemophilia are already disadvantaged in respect of their employment prospects and their ability to obtain mortgages and life insurance. We have no evidence to suggest that those people who have become infected with HIV via blood transfusion were similarly disadvantaged before the illness or accident leading to the need for transfusion.