Question follow-through · 39386

NHS Business Services Authority: Crawford & Company

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what services the NHSBSA paid Crawford & Co; and what the budget for expenditure on the services of Crawford & Co is for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for 2025-26.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
24 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Economy and business

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what services the NHSBSA paid Crawford & Co; and what the budget for expenditure on the services of Crawford & Co is for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for 2025-26.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Crawford & Company currently provides a medical assessment service for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS). The VDPS budget for 2025/26, including payments to claimants, the budget for Crawford & Company, and the budget for the operation of t...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

26 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 39387 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, if he will make an estimate of the number of assessments that have missed the 95 per cent target; how man

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

26 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March to Question 39386 on NHS Business Services Authority: Crawford & Company, how much of the budget of £38.6m is set aside for the payment of VDPS claims; and what t

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

26 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason applicants seeking mandatory reversal of decisions made by the NHSBSA on vaccine damage claims are required as a precondition to adduce fresh evidence without which no mandatory rev

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2025 to Question 41384, what the (a) maximum and (b) minimum time was between a Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme application being made to the NHS Business Services A

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Members: Correspondence

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the correspondence of 5 February 2025 from the hon. Member for Christchurch relating to a constituent.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the (a) maximum and (b) minimum time between Crawford & Co completing a medical review of applications for vaccine damage payments and the applicant being informed of the decision in in th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Great Western Hospital: Pneumonia

3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon died from hospital acquired pneumonia in (a) December 2024, (b) January 2025 and (c) February 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GP Surgeries: Burton

3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution in response to the hon. Member for Christchurch of 25 March 2025, Official Report, column 773, whether he has received an update from the Dorset Integrated C

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners: Christchurch

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent (a) GPs and (b) other clinical practitioners were employed at (i) Highcliffe Medical Centre, (ii) Christchurch Medical Centre, (iii) Burton Brunch Surgery, (iv) Stour

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GP Practice Lists: Christchurch

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were registered at (a) Highcliffe Medical Centre, (b) Christchurch Medical Centre, (c) Burton Brunch Surgery, (d) Stour Surgery and (e) The Grove Surgery on (i) 1 June 2024 and (i

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners: Christchurch

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on GP services by Dorset Integrated Care Board in Christchurch in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-2024 and (c) 2024-25; and what the budget is for 2025-2026.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GP Practice Lists: Christchurch

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of new patients registered at (a) Highcliffe Medical Centre, (b) Christchurch Medical Centre, (c) Burton Brunch Surgery, (d) The Stour Surgery an