The Latest Breaking News from Brian Langstaff

It is estimated about 3,000 people in Scotland were infected with Hepatitis C through NHS blood or blood products in the 1970s through to 1991.

Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.

The parents and children of victims of the infected blood scandal will have to wait until at least next year to find out whether they will receive compensation, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday.

Estimated 4,000 victims survived what has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS which saw 2,400 die

Victims of the infected blood scandal will receive £100,000 compensation each “as soon as possible”, the Government will announce.

Ministers expected to accept recommendations that payments should be no less than £100,000

Jeremy Hunt, Matt Hancock and Andy Burnham back chair of inquiry’s recommendation for compensation ‘without delay’

‘Successive governments didn’t act as quickly as they should have and we need to recognise this is as a terrible, terrible injustice’

Andy Burnham, Jeremy Hunt and Matt Hancock have each stressed the importance of issuing the £100,000 recommended payouts as soon as possible.

Des Collins, senior partner at Collins Solicitors, said he would be stepping up pressure on the Department for Health and Social Care on Monday.

The survivors or bereaved families could be in line for a pay-out