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Written Question Commons
15 May 2024
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
Alexander Stafford Conservative → Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will require a review of the effectiveness of the vaccine damage payment scheme.

Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care

All routine policy, including the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), is reviewed on a regular basis. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is currently looking into aspects of the scheme, following recent meetings with interested stakeholders.

Separately, work is underway with the scheme’s administrator, the NHS Business Service Authority, to review processes and make administrative changes, to improve the scheme within the current legislative framework. Formal consideration of whether any reforms to the VDPS are necessary will form part of Module 4 of the COVID-19 Inquiry, chaired by the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Carol Hallett DBE.

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Written Question Commons
15 May 2024
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
Alexander Stafford Conservative → Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the vaccine damage payment scheme at assessing (a) claims related to covid-19 vaccines and (b) other claims.

Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care

All routine policy, including the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), is reviewed on a regular basis. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is currently looking into aspects of the scheme, following recent meetings with interested stakeholders.

Separately, work is underway with the scheme’s administrator, the NHS Business Service Authority, to review processes and make administrative changes, to improve the scheme within the current legislative framework. Formal consideration of whether any reforms to the VDPS are necessary will form part of Module 4 of the COVID-19 Inquiry, chaired by the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Carol Hallett DBE.

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