Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government about financial support for victims of contaminated blood.

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Jane Ellison) wrote to Vaughan Gething on 13 July 2016 to inform him of the publication of the Government Response to the Consultation on Reform of Financial and Other Support for those infected and affected by NHS supplied blood, and offered to arrange a call to discuss this further.

Officials from the Department and the Welsh Government have been working together over the past few months on the issue of scheme reform, including a workshop in London in March to consider the themes emerging from the England consultation, and regular phone conferences.