To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 November 2006, Official Report, column 225W, on contaminated NHS blood products, how decisions are made on the communication of information on possible risks and the protection of public health. (107371)

In January this year, the Department submitted a memorandum of evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Government's policy on the management of risk. This sets out the Department's approach to managing risk.

A copy of the memorandum by the Department has been published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs. This is available at:

www.publications.parliamentuk/pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldeconaf/183/18302.htm#evidence