To ask the Secretary of State for Health what potential conflicts of interest were notified to the Permanent Secretary by departmental Ministers between 1997 and 1999 in connection with the handling of compensation claims related to the supply of contaminated blood products by the NHS. (127259)

[holding answer 13 March 2007]: The Department has no record available relating to notification of conflicts of interest for the period in question. To look into this any further would incur disproportionate cost.