Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the contaminated blood support scheme is compatible with the Equalities Act 2010.
Under the general equality duty set out in the Equality Act 2010, the Department has assessed the effect of the English Infected Blood Support Scheme on groups protected under the Act, as well as the impact on families. We published our assessment of changes to the scheme in 2017 and keep this equality analysis under review. The assessment is available at the following link: