Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

(asked on 29th November 2024) - View Source
Questioner
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
(Conservative - Tatton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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.

Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th December 2024

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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