Blood: Contamination
(asked on 27th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were registered with (a) the Macfarlane Trust, (b) the Skipton Fund and (c) the Caxton Foundation in each year since 2011.
The number of people registered with the Macfarlane Trust, the Skipton Fund and the Caxton Foundation, from 2011-12 to the most recent full year for which the Department has figures are as follows:
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Skipton Fund | 4,908 | 5,038 | 5,132 |
Caxton Foundation | 505 | 555 | 695 |
Macfarlane Trust | 549 | 608 | 599 |
The Skipton Fund figures relate to successful stage 1 applications in respect of infected claimants, but it is not known how many of these people are currently still alive. The Caxton Foundation and Macfarlane Fund figures are the number of living beneficiaries at 31 March in each of the specified years, and includes both infected and uninfected beneficiaries.