In the 1970s and 1980s around 5,000 people with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders were infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through the use of contaminated clotting factors, some unwittingly then passing it on to their partners.
Since those times more than 3,000 people have died and of the 1,250 people infected with HIV less than 250 are still alive, these only being alive due to advances in the treatment of their condition which were not available at the time of their original infection.
During today's debate I asked the Government to say when constiuents will be able to apply for compensation.
