Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 63803

Blood: Contamination

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025

Question

Graeme Downie

LabourDunfermline 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-Symonds
In 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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