Question follow-through · 86094
Vaccination: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's Vaccine Damage Payment Unit is still in operation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's Vaccine Damage Payment Unit is still in operation.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) provides a one-off, tax-free payment of £120,000 to claimants who have been found, in rare cases and on the balance of probabilities, to have been severely disabled by certain vaccines for a disease listed in the V...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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