Margaret Ritchie – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Ritchie on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when compensation will be made available for those individuals infected by contaminated bloods.

Jane Ellison

As liability has not been established in the majority of cases, therefore it would not be appropriate to talk about payments in terms of compensation. Where liability has been established in a small number of individuals affected by HIV, hepatitis C or both infections through treatment with NHS-supplied blood or blood products before 1991, compensation has been paid. A consultation on proposals to reform the current payments schemes will be published in January 2016.