Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Chancellor of the Exchequer, (b) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and (c) other Cabinet colleagues on the provision of financial compensation to infected blood victims.

I refer the honourable members to the statement made on Wednesday April 19 2023, in response to the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry’s Second Interim Report.

We continue to work across Government to prepare our response to Sir Brian Langstaff’s report.