Stephen Kinnock – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Kinnock on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 19788, in how many cases liability has been established for people infected by contaminated blood.

Jane Ellison

In 2001 the National Blood Authority was liable for the infection of 117 patients with hepatitis C between March 1988 and September 1991 by whole blood transfusion. The litigation was brought under the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 1987. The litigants were awarded quantum based damages.