Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the reformed English support scheme for those affected by contaminated blood, whether allocated funds not spent on beneficiaries (a) in each fiscal year to and (b) at the end of the Spending Review period in 2020-21 will be given back to HM Treasury.

Funds allocated to the infected blood payment schemes for the current spending review have been designated from Department central budgets and not from an additional Treasury funding stream. Therefore, it is our intention that any unspent monies from these payments will be recycled for health care purposes within each financial year rather than being returned to the Treasury.