| Heading: |
Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme |
| Question ID: |
1745763 |
| UIN: |
16923 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4084 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Esther McVey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Esther McVey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13773 on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, how much his Department spent on legal fees defending against appeals. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Between 1 November 2021 and 1 December 2024, the total spent by the NHS Business Services Authority on behalf of the Department on legal fees to defend against appeals within the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme was £50,608. |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |