Question follow-through · 51067
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress he has made on reducing the time taken to provide full compensation to people affected by the infected blood scandal; and what steps he is taking to ensure compensation is provided to victim
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress he has made on reducing the time taken to provide full compensation to people affected by the infected blood scandal; and what steps he is taking to ensure compensation is provided to victim
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The delivery of compensation is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). Whilst the roll out of the scheme is an operational decision for IBCA as an independent body, I fully support their commitment to moving forward as swiftly as p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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