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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

Commons · Question 25669 · Tabled 22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 29 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Emma Lewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (a) are pending, (b) have been paid and (c) have been refused.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 29 Jan 2025

Between 1 November 2021 and 17 January 2025, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has received 19,115 claims. Of these, 7,159, or 37% of claims, are awaiting resolution, 208, or 1% of claims, have been awarded, and 11,748, or 61% of claims, have not been awa...