§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will give for each region the units of blood supplied to private hospitals for each year since 1979;
(2) how many units were handled by the blood transfusion service in each year since 1979 by regional transfusion service.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 26 June 1990]: The available information is given in the tables. Data giving units of blood supplied to private hospitals were not collected prior to 1982. Figures essentially for years before 1987, are likely to be incomplete because regional transfusion centres were not always informed of issues from hospital blood banks.