Victims of Contaminated Blood: Support Debate
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Andy Slaughter
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Victims of Contaminated Blood: Support
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Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
Let me challenge the Minister on the phrase “quieter voices”, which I have heard her use several times. It seems to be a code for addressing the important but less costly issues of treatment and reform of the current scheme rather than a full and final settlement to what Lord Winston rightly called the
“worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS”.
We have a moral duty here, so simply saying “the Chancellor will not give me the money” will not wash.
Jane Ellison
Again, I have said here today and previously in Westminster Hall what I believe the position to be with compensation. I accept that the hon. Gentleman has a different view and we had an exchange when he contributed to the discussion in November. I think it would be wrong to dismiss the idea of listening to quieter voices, which I have had the opportunity to do over the last couple of years, and as a result it has become clear that a number of people want a number of different things from a reformed scheme. It will not be possible to do everything that everyone wants. We are going to try to respond as best we can with a scheme that is sustainable, fair to all and responds to many of the points made here today.