Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

(asked on 11th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received payments from the vaccines damages scheme in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 20th May 2022

The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme provides a one-off tax-free payment, currently £120,000, to successful applicants where vaccination has caused severe disablement. The following table shows the number of claimants which have received payments in each of the last five years.

Calendar year

Awards

2018

4

2019

2

2020

4

2021

1

2022

0

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