Summary
This is the transcript of a statement in the House of Commons by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, John Glen MP, in response to the publication of the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry. He sets out plans for a proposed scheme to provide compensation to those infected and affected by this scandal. This was followed by comments from other members of the House of Commons.
Content
Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of Commons on the Infected Blood Inquiry, in this statement the Minister set out in further detail the comprehensive compensation scheme referenced in the Prime Minister’s statement.
He stated that those who have been directly or indirectly infected by NHS blood, blood products or tissue contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C, or have developed a chronic infection from blood contaminated with hepatitis B, will be eligible to claim compensation under the scheme, and where an infected person has died but would have been eligible under those criteria, compensation will be paid to their estate. This will include where a person was infected with hepatitis B and died during the acute period of infection.
He also noted that the Government will:
- establish the Infected Blood Compensation Authority—an arm’s length body—to administer the scheme. Sir Robert Francis will be appointed as the interim chair of the organisation.
- ensure that anyone already registered with one of the existing infected blood support schemes will automatically be considered eligible for compensation.
- make extra interim payments of £210,000 over the summer to living infected beneficiaries—those registered with existing infected blood support schemes as well as those who register with a support scheme before the final scheme becomes operational—and to the estates of those who pass away between now and payments being made.
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