Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, before what date a person infected with HIV has to have received treatment with NHS blood products in order to qualify for registration with (a) MFET Ltd and (b) the Eileen Trust.

The Department’s policy is that MFET Ltd and the Eileen Trust are for people infected prior to the introduction of heat-treatment of blood products (a process which inactivates HIV) and an HIV screening test for blood donation, both of which occurred in 1985.