Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral contribution of the previous Prime Minister on 13 July 2016, Official Report, column 291, on contaminated blood and compensation, when he expects the details of that scheme to be published.

Reforming the infected blood ex-gratia support schemes remain a priority for this Government and, at his last Prime Minister’s Questions on 13 July 2016, the then Prime Minister announced the publication of the Government’s plans for reforming the current payment support schemes for individuals affected by HIV and/or hepatitis C through National Health Service-supplied blood, including its response to the public consultation which ran earlier this year.

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Public Health (Jane Ellison) also issued a Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS88) on 14 July 2016.

The response document went live on the Gov.UK website on 13 July 2016 and can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/infected-blood-reform-of-financial-and-other-support