§ Lord Morris of Manchesterasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many haemophilia patients, in the course of their National Health Service treatment, have to date received blood from donors who subsequently died of vCJD. [HL2861]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathNo information is held centrally on the number of patients with haemophilia who received blood from donors who have since died from vCJ D.
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§ Lord Morris of Manchesterasked Her Majesty's Government:
What screening test for vCJD is available to assure haemophilia patients that they are not being exposed to risk by the prescription of plasma and not recombinant products. [HL2862]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathThere is no screening test available for vCJD. The Government are supporting a number of avenues of research into a diagnostic test for vCJD to enable a screening test to be developed for blood donations.
We have already taken action to reduce the theoretical risk of transferring vCJD through blood and blood products. As a precautionary measure all blood used for transfusion has had the white cells removed and we no longer use United Kingdom plasma in the manufacture of blood products.
£'000s Resources Capital Change New DEL Of which voted Non-voted Change New DEL Of which voted Non-voted 538,562 48,872,673 49,364,233 −491,560 −307,199 1,932,092 483,499 1,448,593 The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the take-up of end year flexibility £120,000,000 for health authority allocations as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2000–01 provisional outturn White Paper Cm 5243 published in July 2001: a claim of £30,000,000 on the reserve for variant CJD compensation; an additional £6,267,000 from HM Treasury as a result of technical adjustments following changes in accounting arrangements for some PFI schemes; a net transfer to the National Assembly for Wales of £2,493,000, £3,683,000 for out-of-area treatment costs, dental service increment for teaching, cross border flows and high security psychiatric services, partially offset by a transfer of £1,190,000 for regional re-costing and post-graduate education; transfers from Northern Ireland totalling £2,030,000, £68,000 for post-graduate training, £1,941,000 for out-of-area treatment costs and £21,000 (of which £7,000 administration costs) for contributions to committees and non-departmental public bodies; transfer to the Home Office of £1,569,000, £2,767,000 for drug action teams and match funded social care projects, offset by £1,098,000 for costs arising from the Victoria Climbie inquiry and £100,000 for medium secure units; a net transfer to the Department for Education and Skills of £613,000, comprising £750,000 for the National Institute of Psychiatry and £100,000 for a learning and development website package, offset by a transfer of £237,000 for the costs of Protection of Children Act tribunal and Care Standards tribunal; transfer to the Lord Chancellor's Department of £164,000, (of which £123,000 administration costs) for Care Standards tribunals and Family Health Services Appeals Authority recruitment; a transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions of £1,095,000 for the road traffic accidents work of the Compensation Recovery Unit; a transfer from the Department for Transport,