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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 92985, tabled on 14 December 2021

Question

Hannah Bardell
Scottish National Party
Livingston
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any payments have been made under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations.

Answer

Maria Caulfield
Conservative
Lewes
Commons

Answered on

5 January 2022

There have not been any Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) payments relating to COVID-19 vaccinations to date.

Claims relating to COVID-19 are taking longer to investigate and process as the related vaccines are new and establishing a relationship between them and their purported side effects takes time. Since taking over the administration of the scheme in November 2021, the NHS Business Services Authority have started processing COVID-19 vaccinations claims and will update claimants on progress. Other VDPS claims continue to be processed as usual.

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