To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 6 March 2003, Official Report, column 1209W, on haemophilia, when the strategy will be put in place to roll out access to recombinant clotting factors. [103528]

The strategy will be put in place as early as possible in the 2003–04 financial year once key stakeholders, including patient representatives, have been fully consulted. As this process has recently started, it is too soon to give a precise date.