Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, since the inquiry into contaminated blood opened in July 2018, how many payments have been awarded to the families affected; and how many families have received payment.

Since July 2018, the England Infected Blood Support Scheme (EIBSS) has provided 154,380 lump sum, regular and discretionary one-off payments to beneficiaries. The EIBSS does not hold information on whether individual beneficiaries are members of the same family.