| Heading: |
Blood: Contamination |
| Question ID: |
1817830 |
| UIN: |
63803 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5275 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Graeme Downie
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| Asking Member handle: |
GraemeDownieMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@GraemeDownieMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on compensation for people impacted by infected blood and also by variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4479 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Nick Thomas-Symonds
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| Answering Member handle: |
nicktorfaenmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@nicktorfaenmp
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| Answer text: |
In his 2022 Compensation Framework Study, Sir Robert Francis recommended that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) was not included in the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. He noted that “this is a rare disease for which there is a separate compensa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |