Question follow-through · 80491
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
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
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
I would like to reiterate my deepest sympathies to all those individuals who have experienced harm following vaccination, and to their families.I recognise many of the concerns that campaigners have raised regarding the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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