Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers of the Scottish Government on payments for people affected by contaminated blood.

I have had a number of discussions with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-being and we are working together to facilitate the increased payments using the current scheme administrator.

We both want these payments to be made as quickly as possible to people infected in Scotland, and across the UK.

Officials in the Department and Scottish Government have been working together to facilitate the increased payments using the current payment scheme.