Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 4.4 of his Department's document, Infected blood: Government Response to Consultation on Reform of Financial and Other Support, published in July 2016, whether payments for people with stage 1 hepatitis C who obtain higher payments equivalent to stage 2 through the Special Appeals Mechanism will be uprated in line with the consumer prices index.

All annual payments to beneficiaries of the support schemes will continue to be linked to the Consumer Price Index under the new arrangements from 2017/18.