HC Deb 06 March 1998 vol 307 c824W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people with haemophilia have received financial compensation for being infected with HIV through the use of contaminated blood products given as part of NHS treatment; and how much has been paid. [33221]

Ms Jowell

I understand that, as at 31 January 1998, 1,239 haemophiliac patients had received a total of some £90 million since the beginning of such payments in 1988.