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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

Commons · Question 88869 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate for (a) approval of claims, (b) claims overturned at review and (c) payout has been for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme since March 2022.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 18 Nov 2025

The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) provides a one-off, tax-free payment of £120,000 to claimants who have been found, in rare cases and on the balance of probabilities, to have been severely disabled by certain vaccines for a disease listed in the V...