Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 63803
Blood: Contamination
Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025
Question
Graeme Downie
Labour — Dunfermline and Dollar
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on compensation for people impacted by infected blood and also by variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Answer
Nick Thomas-SymondsIn his 2022 Compensation Framework Study, Sir Robert Francis recommended that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) was not included in the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. He noted that “this is a rare disease for which there is a separate compensa...
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