Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of applications to the vaccine damage payment scheme since 2020 have been successful on appeal,by vaccine type.

Data from the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrators of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), shows that 22,408 VDPS claims were received between 1 November 2021 and 4 July 2025. 1.1% of these have been successful, with a further 0.1% having been successful following an appeal, known as a mandatory reversal. Of the claims received:

• 21,213 of these were for claims related to vaccination against COVID-19. 1.1% of these claims have been successful, with a further 0.1% having been successful after a mandatory reversal request;
• 171 claims were received in relation to vaccination against flu in adults. 1.8% of these claims have been successful, and none of these claims were successful after a mandatory reversal; and
• 1,024 claims were received in relation to vaccination against other diseases. 0.7% of these claims have been successful, and none of these claims were successful after a mandatory reversal.

These figures are based on total applications received. Some of these applications will not yet have been assessed or were invalid.