Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 29626

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis

Tabled: 6 February 2025
Answered: 13 February 2025
Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 25004 on Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of funding for compensation for the affected families

Answer

Nick Thomas-Symonds
In the Autumn budget, the Government announced £11.8 billion of funding to compensate eligible infected and affected people. Each eligible person will get the compensation they are due.