Exhibit to Lord Owens statement. Letter from John Moore of the Department of Health and Social Security to the Dr David Owen MP explaining the reasons why he believed that selfsufficiency would be achieved later that year (1988) and had not been achieved earlier. Explanations include BPL finances funding to Regional Transfusion Centres and capital injections alone did not enable self sufficiency. The production decrease in 1980 reflected disruption from installing three new freeze driers as part of the 2million refurbishment the production decrease in 1984 reflects the halt in production to introduce heat treatment.