Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's timetable is for the spending of the sum of £25 million allocated for dealing with the issue of contaminated blood.

We expect to announce our plans for that money in light of a public consultation into potential scheme reform, and once we have an understanding of how a new scheme might be structured. We do not intend to use this money for the administrative costs that might be associated with closing down the existing schemes.