Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery has hit out at "dither and delay" with the Government yet to set out plans to fully compensate victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
This comes despite Sir Brian Langstaff - chair of the ongoing independent public inquiry into the "biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS" - produced an interim report urging the Government to act on compensation. The scandal saw thousands infected with lethal viruses such as HIV and hepatitis through blood products provided on the NHS.
Sir Brian told the Government in his report that the scandal had seen "wrongs done on individual, collective and systemic levels", and that it must set up a full compensation scheme this year to provide redress. It's likely that compensation will run well into the millions.
