Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 240997, what progress has been made in meeting the Government’s aim for haemophilia patients to be bleed free; and if he will set out a timetable for meeting that aim.

NHS England is committed to commissioning haemophilia services for patients in England, with the aim to enable patients with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders to live as normal a life as possible, ensuring optimum treatment with clotting factor to maintain a bleed-free existence where possible.

NHS England is committed in its response to providing new treatment measures as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan of January 2019, through accessing advanced medicines. The NHS remains one of the key international environments for researching new treatments for haemophilia.