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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Lester

Infected blood compensation hold-up ‘not about saving money’, insists minister

People hold up the Infected Blood Inquiry report (Jeff Moore/PA) - (PA Archive)

Delays in compensation payouts to victims of the infected blood scandal are not deliberate in order to save money, a minister has insisted.

Labour frontbencher Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent said such a step would be “the most heinous of approaches” and was “simply not true”.

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