Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the recipients of compensation payments from the Infected Blood Compensation Authority will be subject to any (a) legal conditions and (b) non-disclosure requirements when accepting such payments.

The legal conditions that recipients of compensation will be subject to are to enable the swift and effective delivery of compensation. Regulation 35 of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2024 includes a duty on applicants to inform the Authority of any change in circumstances in relation to their application, and Regulation 41 includes powers to enable the Infected Blood Compensation Authority to carry out a review of a decision for the prevention of fraud or correction of error where this may be necessary. Recipients of compensation payments will not be subject to any non-disclosure requirements by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.