Question reference: S2W-20360
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
- Date lodged: 4 November 2005
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Current status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2005
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what data or documents it has provided to the Department of Health’s internal review in respect of haemophilia blood products and whether it has been able to provide sufficient documentation to that review, given the statement by the department that some documents have been destroyed.
Answer
The Department of Health commissioned a review in 2002 to clarify the facts surrounding the drive for UK self sufficiency in blood products in the 1970’s and 1980’s. If requested, the Executive provided copies of all relevant documents which it holds. However, were any Scottish documents held by the Department of Health subsequently destroyed, it would only have been their copies which were destroyed.