Parliamentary Activity
Infected Blood Inquiry
— 341 mentions in Parliament
since Sep 2017
Written Question
Lords
10 Jul 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what are the reasons for the delays in the compensation payments which are due to those affected by infected blood following the Infected Blood Inquiry; and who is responsible for them.
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The delivery of compensation is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). IBCA has opened the service to those who are living with infection, registered with a support scheme, and prioritising those who are nearing the end of their li...
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Written Question
Lords
25 Jun 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many victims of contaminated blood in the UK were infected with hepatitis D in addition to hepatitis B; and how this has affected their prognosis.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The work undertaken so far to address the issues regarding contaminated blood in the United Kingdom has been related to the hepatitis C and HIV infections.The Infected Blood Inquiry, in its Expert Report to the Infected Blood Inquiry: Statistics noted in ...
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Written Question
Lords
24 Feb 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the number of people who have been infected by contaminated blood since 1980.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The Department has not made an estimate of the number of patients that became infected after the year 1980, although we have estimates for infections occurring in a wider timeframe. The Department used the principle number presented by the Infected Blood ...
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Written Question
Lords
24 Feb 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of people infected by contaminated blood products since 1980 who are still alive.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The Department has not made an estimate of the number of patients that became infected after the year 1980, although we have estimates for infections occurring in a wider timeframe. The Department used the principle number presented by the Infected Blood ...
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Written Question
Lords
07 Feb 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many departmental reviews since 2015 (1) had within their terms of reference the power to recommend individual compensation payments, and did so; (2) did not have the power within their terms of reference to recommend c
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The terms of reference for a public inquiry determine an inquiry’s scope. Since 2015, none of the terms of reference for public inquiries (whether or not led by a judicial chair) have specifically required an inquiry to make recommendations related to com...
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Written Question
Lords
07 Feb 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many public inquiries with a non-judicial chair since 2015 (1) had within their terms of reference the power to recommend individual compensation payments, and did so; (2) did not have the power within their terms of re
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The terms of reference for a public inquiry determine an inquiry’s scope. Since 2015, none of the terms of reference for public inquiries (whether or not led by a judicial chair) have specifically required an inquiry to make recommendations related to com...
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Written Question
Lords
07 Feb 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many public inquiries chaired by a judge since 2015 (1) had within their terms of reference the power to recommend individual compensation payments, and did so; (2) did not have the power within their terms of reference
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The terms of reference for a public inquiry determine an inquiry’s scope. Since 2015, none of the terms of reference for public inquiries (whether or not led by a judicial chair) have specifically required an inquiry to make recommendations related to com...
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Written Question
Lords
13 Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the recommendations in the Infected Blood Inquiry report, what assessment they have made of the safety and efficacy of modern plasma-derived therapies.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The Government is considering Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations, including recommendation 9 that relates to the use of alternatives to plasma-derived medicines. We will provide an update to Parliament on the progress we are making by the end of the ye...
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Written Question
Lords
13 Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government how they interpret the phrase "where clinically appropriate" in recommendation 9(e) of the Infected Blood Inquiry report, and how this will preserve patient choice and clinical judgement based on the latest clinical evidenc
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
I recognise that the findings of the inquiry’s final report are deeply shocking, and the Government is committed to acting on the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry.The Government is considering Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations, and will provide ...
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Written Question
Lords
13 Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the recommendations in the Infected Blood Inquiry report for the MHRA as regulator of medicines in the UK.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
I recognise that the findings of the inquiry’s final report are deeply shocking, and the Government is committed to acting on the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry.The Government is considering Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations, and will provide ...
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Written Question
Lords
13 Nov 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to implement recommendation 9(e) of the Infected Blood Inquiry report while maintaining consistency with existing NHS England commissioning guidelines, continuing to improve standards of care and quality of
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
I recognise that the findings of the inquiry’s final report are deeply shocking, and the Government is committed to acting on the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry.The Government is considering Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations, and will provide ...
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Written Question
Lords
22 May 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Infected Blood Inquiry: The Report published on 20 May, when infected and affected people will receive new interim compensation payments; and when full compensation payments will be made.
Government answer
Cabinet Office
It is the Government’s intention for the first interim payments of £210,000 to the living infected to be delivered within 90 days, to begin in summer. Full Compensation Scheme payments will be made as quickly as possible and our aim is that payments will ...
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Written Question
Lords
16 Apr 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect full compensation payments to have been made to the victims of the infected blood scandal and to family members of those victims who have already died.
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The Government has committed to update Parliament through an oral statement on next steps within 25 sitting days following 20 May. It is our intention to make this statement as soon as possible. Additionally, we have tabled a Government amendment ahead of...
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Written Question
Lords
21 Feb 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the final compensation recommendations made by the Infected Blood Inquiry in 2023, what plans they have to make interim payments to bereaved parents and children.
Government answer
Cabinet Office
First, and most importantly, the suffering of the victims must be recognised. The Government understands that no measures can fully compensate for the losses and hardships that they have suffered. The priority here must be to ensure that victims get the j...
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Written Question
Lords
17 Jan 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are coordinating and disseminating lessons learned from the various current and recent past public inquiries, in particular where there are recommendations regarding policy-making procedures and machinery of go
Government answer
Cabinet Office
Each inquiry chair will present their conclusions and recommendations to an inquiry’s sponsor minister. It is the responsibility of the lead department to determine how best to progress and implement the inquiry’s recommendations and the department will p...
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Written Question
Lords
09 Nov 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their response to recommendation 18 of the Infected Blood Inquiry's second interim report, published on 5 April, that a compensation scheme should be set up now and it should begin work this year.
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The Government continues to make progress with the work necessary to enable a response to the full report when it is published in March next year. It is only reasonable that the Inquiry, whose work is in train, concludes and provides their final recommend...
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Written Question
Lords
09 Nov 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to page 60 of the Infected Blood Inquiry's second interim report, published on 5 April, what work they have been done to register those eligible for interim compensation payments with existing support schemes,
Government answer
Cabinet Office
The Government continues to make progress with the work necessary to enable a response to the full report when it is published in March next year. It is only reasonable that the Inquiry, whose work is in train, concludes and provides their final recommend...
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Written Question
Lords
02 Oct 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people who were infected with contaminated blood (1) are eligible for, and (2) have received, the £100,000 interim compensation payment under the Infected Blood Support Scheme.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The Infected Blood Inquiry’s terms of reference include the task to “ascertain, as far as practicable, the likely numbers of people who have been infected (directly or indirectly) in consequence of: a) the use of infected blood; and b) the use of infected...
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Written Question
Lords
02 Oct 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Infected Blood Inquiry, how many people were infected by contaminated blood; how many of those died as a consequence; and how many are now eligible for interim compensation payments under the Infected Blood
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The Infected Blood Inquiry’s terms of reference include the task to “ascertain, as far as practicable, the likely numbers of people who have been infected (directly or indirectly) in consequence of: a) the use of infected blood; and b) the use of infected...
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Written Question
Lords
22 Jun 2022
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals have brought claims against the Government for negligence in relation to contaminated Factor VIII blood products since the Government first made compensation payments to haemophiliacs infected with HIV
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
A group claim has been brought on behalf of approximately 500 claimants or their dependants, in relation to Factor VIII and Factor IX products. This claim is stayed pending the outcome of the Infected Blood Inquiry.
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Written Question
Lords
09 Jun 2022
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many lump sum (1) regular, and (2) discretionary, one-off payments were made between the establishment of the Infected Blood Inquiry in 2017 to July 2018.
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
This information is not held in the format requested. The Infected Blood Inquiry was established in July 2018. The England Infected Blood Support Scheme (EIBSS) is administered by the NHS Business Service Authority and began operation on 1 November 2017. ...
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Written Question
Lords
23 May 2022
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any payments were made to families of those who were infected by contaminated blood since the settlement in 1990, and the opening of the present inquiry into contaminated blood; and if such payments were made, what
Government answer
Department of Health and Social Care
The information requested on payments made between 1990 and the start of the Infected Blood Inquiry in 2017 is not held centrally.Since 2017, support for those affected has been provided through four national infected blood support schemes. In England, th...
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