Request

1. The number of claims made under the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme for all COVID-19 vaccines.

2. Of the number of claims in part 1, how many resulted in granting the payment?

3. A summarised explanation of how refusals of the payment have been decided with the limited information available?

Response

Question 1

As of 19 January 2022, a total of 721 claims have been submitted to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to COVID-19 vaccines.

Question 2 and 3

I am writing to advise you that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

The COVID-19 vaccines are very new and the global effort to establish any potential causal relationship between the vaccines and their potential adverse effects is not straightforward and has taken time. Claims relating to COVID-19 vaccines have not yet been medically assessed, therefore no claims have reached a conclusion to date.

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