Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's publication, Infected blood: Government Response to Consultation on Reform of Financial and Other Support, published in July 2016, whether it is his policy that people with hepatitis C will continue to receive payments even if they clear the condition following successful treatment.

It is the Department’s policy that the registrants of existing payment support schemes, who were infected with hepatitis C through National Health Service-supplied blood or blood products and have subsequently cleared the virus through treatment, should receive continuing support in recognition of what has happened to them.