Request

1) Please can you provide a break down of the ages of those making a claim to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for a injury due to a Covid 19 vaccine, by the following age ranges

0 to 17, 18 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 65, 66 onwards. ?

2) Please can you provide a break down of ages of those awarded a Vaccine Damage Payment for a Covid 19 vaccine in the age ranges as above?

3) Please can you provide a breakdown of the ages of those who have received a decision where causation has been accepted but the 60% criteria has not been met in the age ranges as above?

4) How many of the claims for those aged 0- 17 years have received an outcome?

All requests are for claims made due a Covid 19 vaccine.

Response

All data as of 22 November 2023. All data relates to claims received by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and those transferred from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 1 November 2021. All figures provided for questions 1 to 4 relate to COVID-19 vaccines.

Fewer than five

Please be aware that I have decided not to release the full details where the total number of patients falls below five. This is because the patients could be identified, when combined with other information that may be in the public domain or reasonably available. This information falls under the exemption in section 40 subsections 2 and 3 (a) of the Freedom of Information Act. This is because it would breach the first data protection principle as:  

a - it is not fair to disclose claimant personal details to the world and is likely to cause damage or distress. b - these details are not of sufficient interest to the public to warrant an intrusion into the privacy of the claimant.  

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.  

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40  

Breach of Patient confidentiality

Please note that the identification of claimants is also a breach of the common law duty of confidence. A claimant who has been identified could make a claim against the NHSBSA for the disclosure of the confidential information.  

The information requested is therefore being withheld as it falls under the exemption in section 41(1) ‘Information provided in confidence’ of the Freedom of Information Act.   Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.  

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/41    

Question 1

See attached.

Question 2

Following the disclosure of your previous request (FOI 01492), claims in the following age ranges have not changed: • 0 to 17 • 30 to 39

Following the disclosure of your previous request (FOI 01492), claims in the following age ranges increased by fewer than five and therefore we have decided not to release the full details: • 18 to 29 • 40 to 49 • 50 to 59 • 60 to 65 • 66 onwards

FOI 01492 is available at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01492

Question 3

Following the disclosure of your previous request (FOI 01492), the number of claims where causation has been accepted but disablement has been assessed at less than 60% increased by fewer than five for the following age ranges and therefore we have decided not to release full details: • 0 to 17 • 18 to 29 • 60 to 65 • 66 onwards

FOI 01492 is available at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01492

See attached.

Question 4

Following the disclosure of your previous request (FOI 01492), the number of claims that have reached an outcome where the vaccinated person is aged between 0 to 17 has increased by fewer than five and therefore we have decided not to release full details.

FOI 01492 is available at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01492

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01558