Question follow-through · 30035
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what tribunal decisions have been used by the NHS Business Services Authority to assess claims relating to Covid-19 vaccinations under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what tribunal decisions have been used by the NHS Business Services Authority to assess claims relating to Covid-19 vaccinations under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
Since taking over administration of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on 1 November 2021, all decisions taken by the NHS Business Services Authority that have been appealed to tribunal have been upheld.Decisions in first tier tribunals do not set a preced...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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