Question follow-through · 25669
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (a) are pending, (b) have been paid and (c) have been refused.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (a) are pending, (b) have been paid and (c) have been refused.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
Between 1 November 2021 and 17 January 2025, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has received 19,115 claims. Of these, 7,159, or 37% of claims, are awaiting resolution, 208, or 1% of claims, have been awarded, and 11,748, or 61% of claims, have not been awa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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