A HAEMOPHILIAC has slammed the Government after the contaminated blood bill he campaigned for was deferred for a second time.

Michael Kenwright, aged 60, of Grappenhall, is seeking compensation for people infected with blood diseases by the NHS after he got hepatitis when the Government used to buy blood products from America.

Those products, used to treat his haemophilia, were from donors at prisons and drug addicts who were paid for their contributions.

Lord Morris of Manchester put a private members bill forward asking for a report, by Lord Peter Archer, on infected blood products to be implemented.

The report recommended that the Government apologise and pay compensation to the victims. In return the Government agreed to pay compensation to those with HIV, but not hepatitis.

At a planned reading in the House of Commons on February 5, the Government said it was not appropriate for the Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill, signed by 113 MPs from all parties, to be passed as time had run out by the time it came up on the order paper.

The reading was delayed until last Friday (February 26) and was again deferred until tomorrow (March 5) and Mr Kenwright, of Chester Road, said: “How many times will this be thrown out before it gets debated? It could take forever.

“This bill could end the hardship for haemophiliacs who were infected as a result of dirty NHS blood products.

“I myself have written on numerous occasions requesting this bill be debated on the floor of the House of Commons, only to be either ignored completely or sent a stock letter refusing a debate.”

The bill has already gone through the first three stages of the House of Lords and was supported by Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Warrington South, David Mowat.

If successful it will give legislative effect to all the recommendations of Lord Archer’s two-year inquiry into the contaminated blood disaster, which left 4,670 haemophiliacs infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C.