PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Blood: Contamination (29 January 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who are beneficiaries of contaminated blood ex-gratia support schemes who (a) have and (b) do not have an inherited bleeding disorder have died since 11 July 2017 in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.

Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat)

It is not possible to provide separate figures for those who have and do not have an inherited bleeding disorder. Not all deaths will have been reported to the current or former infected blood payment schemes, and cause of death is not recorded, so data here cannot be considered to be representative of all deaths since 11 July 2017.

The former infected blood payment schemes responsible for beneficiaries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ceased operation on 31 October 2017. A new infected blood support scheme was launched on 1 November 2017 and covers England only. The data is split to reflect these changes.

Deaths reported to the former infected blood payments schemes between 11 July 2017 - 31 October 2017:

	England	Wales	Northern Ireland
Number of deaths reported	24	1	0

Deaths reported to the England infected blood support scheme between 1 November 2017 - 31 January 2018:

	England
Number of deaths reported	24

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
6 February 2018