Alistair Burt – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alistair Burt on 2016-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to announce details of the discretionary support scheme for people affected by contaminated blood.

Nicola Blackwood

As part of the wider reforms of the Infected Blood Payment support schemes in England, a new discretionary scheme is in design and will be delivered once a new scheme administrator is established in 2017/18. Details of the discretionary support scheme will be provided at that stage. A new discretionary scheme will replace the existing three discretionary schemes.