§ Mr. LepperTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the provision by NHS trusts of recombinant clotting factors to haemophiliac patients.[10733]
§ Mr. HuttonWe asked health authorities and national health service trusts to provide recombinant clotting factors for new patients and children under 16 from April 1998 and are considering the case for providing these products, subject to availability, for all haemophilia patients.