Infected Blood Inquiry

Part of Cabinet Office – in the House of Commons at on 23 September 2021.

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Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson Labour, Kingston upon Hull North

I welcome the Minister to his new post. May I also join him in thanking the previous Paymaster General, Penny Mordaunt, for all that she did to ensure that the cause of those infected and affected by the contaminated blood scandal was at the heart of the work she carried out?

As the Paymaster General said, we are three years into the NHS infected blood inquiry, and at the start of the new review into compensation for those infected and affected. Will he say something, though, about what is happening to the bereaved partner payments that were announced in March, and about whether he is willing to look at the inconsistencies that still apply to bereaved partners and their families?