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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus

Asked by Sir Christopher ChopeConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 30 June 2025UIN 62528

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2025 to Question 58911 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus, if he will set out whether the options for reform to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme include the (a) limitation period for court claims, (b) maximum award, and (c) disability threshold.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

I would like to express my sincerest sympathies to those individuals who have experienced harm following vaccination, and to their families. At this stage, I am not in a position to comment further on the details of the options being considered, and will update Parliament in due course, as needed.

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