Question follow-through · 6319

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the cost to his Department of assessing claims under the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme in each of the last four years for which information is available.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
8 Jun 2026
Answer
15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 3 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the cost to his Department of assessing claims under the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme in each of the last four years for which information is available.

  2. 8 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    I would like to apologise for not being able to provide a substantive response to Question 119822 in the previous parliamentary session, which asked what the cost had been of assessing claims under the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme (VDPS) in each of the ...

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