Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Victoria Collins Portrait
Victoria Collins
(Liberal Democrat - Harpenden and Berkhamsted)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the (a) scope, (b) eligibility, (c) criteria and (d) compensation level of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th July 2025

I would like to express my deepest sympathies to those individuals who have experienced harm following vaccination, and to their families.

Ministers continue to consider options for reforming the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

In parallel, the Department has been working with the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the scheme, to take steps to improve the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, including through processing claims at a faster rate.

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