Request

1. The total amount of money awarded under the Vaccine Damage Payment programme since its inception in 1979 until now, broken down by year (please include partial information for 2021 and 2022 if available)

2. The total number of claims made under the Vaccine Damage Payment programme since its inception until now, broken down by year and the proportion of claims accepted/rejected.

3. The total amount of money awarded under the Vaccine Damage Payment programme relating specifically to Covid-19 vaccines broken down by month (include most recent data available)

4. The total number of claims made under the Vaccine Damage Payment programme relating specifically to Covid-19 vaccines broken down by month and proportion of claims accepted/rejected.

Please provide the data in excel format.

Response

Questions 1, 2 and 4

A copy of the information is attached. Please note that figures for 2021/22 cover the period up to 21 January 2022.

Question 3.

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 there have been no payments made to date.

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