Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications there have been to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations; and how many claims have been (a) awarded, (b) rejected and (c) were unresolved for more than six months.
As of 1 September 2023, the NHS Business Services Authority has received 7,160 claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) that relate to COVID-19.
Following medical assessment, 142 (just under 2%) of these claims have been awarded and 3,030 (42.3%) of these claims have been rejected. A further 192 (2.7%) claims were found to be ‘invalid’ (for example, outside the scope of the VDPS, or a duplicate claim).
There are 3,796 currently unresolved claims, 1,010 of which (14.1% of the total number of COVID-19 related claims) have been unresolved for more than six months.