Member

Sir Brian Langstaff’s final report recommendations made it absolutely clear that both infected and affected were to be given interim payments as quickly as possible. Before that, his second interim report in 2023 expected them to be given by December 2023. Can the Minister explain why this Government decided that they would breach this really vital core element of the compensation and redress scheme? Any references in these regulations to the family members surviving an eligible infected blood person refer to them as the “representatives” of that person. In the case of a widow, where the husband was intestate, or a long-term partner, not wife, of an infected person, it is quite possible that the representative of the infected person may not be the same as the affected person identified in Sir Brian’s and Sir Robert’s reports.