Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who contracted HIV following treatment with NHS-supplied blood products from the 1970s to the early 1990s have also contracted (a) Stage 1 Hepatitis C and (b) Stage 2 Hepatitis C.

Based on data supplied by the Skipton Fund, 707 people who contracted HIV following treatment with NHS-supplied blood or blood products from the 1970s to the early 1990s have also received a stage 1 payment in respect of chronic hepatitis C infection contracted through their NHS treatment. Of these, 306 people have also received a stage 2 hepatitis C payment from the Skipton Fund in respect of their developing cirrhosis, liver cancer, B-Cell Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma or receiving a liver transplant as a result of their Hepatitis C infection contracted through their NHS treatment.