Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Special Category Mechanism (SCM) applications were (a) submitted and (b) accepted, in respect of answer to (i) Section 5A, (ii) Section 6A, (iii) Section 6B and (iv) Section 7 of the SCM application form.

As of 4 April 2018, NHS Business Services Authority has received 731 applications for the Special Category Mechanism (SCM) under the England Infected Blood Support Scheme. All SCM applications are looked at as a whole and as every completed section needs to be taken into account information is not available for individual parts of the form.