Question follow-through · 16922
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13773 on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, how many claims have waited over a year for a decision; and what support his Department provides t
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13773 on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, how many claims have waited over a year for a decision; and what support his Department provides t
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2024
Answer published
As of 1 December 2024, 1,107 claims have been waiting over a year for a resolution. All claims are managed on a case-by-case basis and there are several factors that may impact processing times. This includes time spent awaiting medical records from healt...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospitals: Visits
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues to hospitals on visiting times for friends and family.
Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2024 to Question 13772 on Cardiovascular Diseases: Emergency Calls, if he will provide this data for the period between March 2015 and March 2021; and what ass
Primodos: Research
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 12696 on Primodos: Research, when the minutes and outcome of the November Commission on Human Medicines discussion will be published.
Hospitals: Discharges
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the efficiency of supplying medication at hospital discharge to ensure faster discharge.
Hospitals: Discharges
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to make the hospital discharge process more efficient.
Hospitals: Discharges
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average wait time is for hospital patients to be provided with medications at discharge.
Coronavirus: Vaccination
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.6 of the minutes of the Covid-19 Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group held on 18 November 2020, if he will publish (a) the 36 questions posed by the Medicines and
Coronavirus: Vaccination
14 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22602 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, for what reason the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency does not intend to publish this info
Coronavirus: Vaccination
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23741 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, for what reason the MHRA has temporarily withdrawn the collection of minutes from the Commission on Human Me
Coronavirus: Vaccination
12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23741 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, if he will publish (a) the questions posed to Pfizer/BioNTech and (b) the answers received that do not relat
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's Office press release entitled Over two million extra NHS appointments delivered early as trusts handed £40 million to go further and faster, published on 16 F
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Appeals
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the information on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) claim process, published by the NHS Business Services Authority, if he will publish the past tribunal decisions and cas