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Health: Contaminated Blood Products

Answer

The discretionary fund announced on 10 January 2011, which has been called the Caxton Foundation, was set up on 28 March 2011. The criteria and qualification for application, which are outlined in the trust deed establishing the foundation, are as follows: 5 Objects of the Charity 5.1. The Objects are to provide financial assistance and other benefits to meet any charitable need of: 5.1.1. (i) individuals who have received blood, blood products or tissues from the National Health Service and in consequence have been infected with the hepatitis C virus; and (ii) an individual who has been so infected by a person in 5.1.1(i); each of whom has received a Stage 1 Payment other than Excluded Persons (together called "Primary Beneficiaries"); and 5.1.2. the partners, parents, carers, children and dependants of Primary Beneficiaries and the partners, parents, carers, children and dependants of Primary Beneficiaries who have died; and 5.1.3. the partners, parents, carers, children and dependants of any other individuals who died before 29 August 2003 and whose estates have, for the reasons given in Schedule 5, received a payment under the Skipton Fund Agreement (2). 5.2. For the purposes of this clause: 5.2.1. a "partner" is a husband or wife, a widow or widower, a civil partner or a cohabitee of a Primary Beneficiary (including, where applicable, a partner from whom a Primary Beneficiary is or was divorced, separated or has an order for dissolution); and 5.2.2. a "carer" is a relation of a Primary Beneficiary who has provided nursing or similar care on terms otherwise than for full consideration in money or money's worth and in consequence has suffered financially and/or in their health. 5.2.3. "children" includes step-children. 5.3. The Trustees shall have the power, with the consent of the Founder, to add individuals to the class of Primary Beneficiaries and to alter the definition of ““Excluded Persons””. Excluded persons are people with HIV (beneficiaries of the Macfarlane Trust and Eileen Trust), and those infected outside England. Following the recent ministerial announcements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, work is in hand to include people infected with hepatitis C in those areas. It will be for the trustees of the charity to determine to whom of the beneficiaries payment is made, and how much.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

8413; 727 c61-2WA

Session

2010-12

Related items

Blood and Blood Products
Monday, 10 January 2011
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords

Subjects

Compensation Contamination Blood Hepatitis NHS Caxton Foundation

Link

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