§ Mr. SymsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to advise health authorities to use recombinant blood products for haemophiliacs. [24670]
§ Mr. BoatengIn line with the recommendations of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee we have recently commissioned an assessment of the risks of possible human to human transmission of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease through blood and blood products. When we have the results of that assessment we will decide what further advice, if any, we should give.