Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people resident in (a) Scotland are eligible for the English support scheme and (b) England are eligible for the Scottish support scheme for those people affected by contaminated blood.
The current scheme administrators have advised that there are 26 infected individuals resident in Scotland who will be eligible for support through the English scheme and 31 infected individuals resident in England who will be eligible for the Scottish scheme.