Question follow-through · 118293
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's expected timetable is for completing consideration of reforms to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme; and when he expects to bring forward proposals for reform of that scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's expected timetable is for completing consideration of reforms to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme; and when he expects to bring forward proposals for reform of that scheme.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
We would like to reiterate our deepest sympathies to all those individuals who have experienced harm following vaccination, and to their families.The Government recognises that concerns have been raised in relation to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. Mi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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