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P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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Meeting: 23/06/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)

5 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered further information and agree to await a further update following the planned meeting with Haemophilia Wales and the Cross Party Blood Group before considering whether it can take any further action.


Meeting: 04/02/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to write back to the Minister for Health and Social Services to seek an update on discussions with other UK administrations about achieving parity of scheme benefits, and press for this issue to be resolved as a matter of urgency.


Meeting: 19/11/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to seek a response from the Minister to the statement made by the petitioner about payment levels, and for information about how decisions about payment levels are reached.

 

The Committee also requested further information about current scheme benefits in Wales and England from the Research Service.


Meeting: 11/06/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered further correspondence from the Welsh Government and agreed to seek the views of the petitioners on the information in the Minister’s statement of 6 March, before considering further action on the petition.


Meeting: 12/02/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee agreed to await a further update from the Minister for Health and Social Services in relation to the review of the scheme benefits and discretionary payment framework before considering the petition further, and to write again at Easter if this has not been received.


Meeting: 27/11/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services and agreed to write back to the Cabinet Secretary to repeat the request for an indication of the likely timescales for determining and communicating scheme benefits for the Welsh Infected Blood Support Scheme (WIBSS), and to ask that he provides the Committee with a breakdown of the financial support for beneficiaries once the scheme benefits have been determined.

 

 


Meeting: 25/09/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 P-05-831 End the unfairness and discrimination in the financial support for victims of the contaminated blood scandals who were infected in Wales

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The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to write back to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services to share the examples provided by the petitioners and ask for an indication of the timescales for determining scheme benefits for 2018/19.