Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 44815

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025

Question

Steve Witherden

LabourMontgomeryshire and Glyndŵr

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme to distinguish between people subjected to deliberate, non-consensual trials and other people.

Answer

Nick Thomas-Symonds
The Infected Blood Inquiry Report highlights many ethical failings that happened as part of the Infected Blood Scandal. The impact of these ethical failings on infected people has been recognised in the compensation scheme's core autonomy award. In his su...

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