This past weekend the Sunday Times launched its campaign for a full and fair settlement of the scandal involving contaminated blood under the headline “Thousands dead, 40 years of cover up: time for justice for infected blood victims."
Ahead of this, Richard Fuller MP led calls in Parliament for the government to provide a “scoring” for the payment of settlement to the victims infected and affected as recommended by Sir Brian Langstaff, which can be watched at https://youtu.be/h2MZafFlxn8?si=J4b0d-Im-n1XItQ1
Explaining this, Richard Fuller MP said:
“Scoring” is a technical term for assessing the impact of a policy on the overall government budget: its revenues, expenditures and deficits.
I want the government to do this because in so doing we will acknowledge that these compensatory payments would take priority over other policy options. This is hard to do politically but morally it is the best thing to do.
You can read more about Richard's work on the contaminated blood scandal here: https://www.richardfuller.co.uk/news/richard-joins-constituent-deliveri…
