Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 4 March 2024.
Paul Girvan
Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Education), Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Transport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who were (a) treated with contaminated blood products and (b) given contaminated blood transfusions by the NHS in South Antrim Constituency.
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Department has not made an estimate of the number of people who were treated with contaminated blood products and given contaminated blood transfusions by the National Health Service in the South Antrim Constituency, nor has it made an estimate of the numbers of these people who have since died.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
