{"value":{"id":1756987,"askingMemberId":5078,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-22T00:00:00","uin":"25004","questionText":"To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when affected family members of people with blood infected by hepatitis B will be able to apply for compensation.","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4479,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-23T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Those affected by their relationship to an eligible individual infected with Hepatitis B will be able to claim via the compensation scheme. This may include partners, parents, children, and siblings of an eligible infected person, as well as some people who acted as a carer for an infected person. The delivery of compensation payments is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority. The Government expects payments to eligible affected people to begin this year, following a second set of regulations that I will be laying in Parliament in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1756987","method":"GET"}]}