PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Blood: Contamination (24 April 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is for discussions between the Government and victims and families of the contaminated blood scandal on a framework for compensation.

Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)

Answer

In January 2020, the then Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Minister for Patient Safety met campaigners representing the people infected and affected, and campaigners raised a number of issues about the support that would assist them outside of the Inquiry process. Ministers have committed to looking at these issues carefully, including to consider a request to look at a framework for compensation before the Inquiry reports, and to report back on where progress can be made. The Paymaster General is the lead Minister for the Inquiry and is taking forward these actions.


Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
4 May 2020

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