Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Jess Brown-Fuller Portrait
Jess Brown-Fuller
(Liberal Democrat - Chichester)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the (a) scope, (b) eligibility, (c) criteria and (d) compensation level of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 5th September 2025

I would like to reiterate my profound sympathies to all those individuals who have experienced harm following vaccination, and to their families.

Ministers continue to consider options for reforming the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS).

In parallel, the Department continues to work with the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the VDPS, to take further steps to improve the scheme, including through processing claims at a faster rate.

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