Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many lump sum payments of £43,500 (a) have been made by MFET Ltd and (b) were made by MSPT1 and MSPT2 to the estates of people who contracted HIV following treatment with NHS blood products but who died before the lump sum payments scheme was established.

Records held in the Department indicate that no payments of £43,500 were made to the estates of HIV infected individuals, since MFET Ltd was first established.

Under the Macfarlane Special Payments Trust (MSPT) and the Macfarlane Special Payments Trust No2 (MSPT2), no single lump sum payments of £43,500 were made. However, a combination of the £20,000 lump sum payment under MSPT and one of a range of payment levels under MSPT2 of £23,500 would mean that some individuals may have received a payment from each of the two schemes, totalling £43,500.