Nothing “can put right the damage that inaction by multiple previous governments has done”, a minister has said, almost a year after the Infected Blood Inquiry report was published.
Paymaster General Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs that the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA), set up in response to the inquiry, had paid out more than £96 million to people affected by contaminated blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.
