Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Please can you tell me

1) how many applications have been made to the vdps due to an adverse reaction to the Covid vaccines ?

1. How many of the claims have been or are in the process of being assessed by medical assessors?

2. How many claims have been successful?

3. How many claims have been turn down?’

On 17 June 2022, you clarified the following:

‘I would like to clarify that all questions relate to just Covid 19 claims’

Your clarified request was received on 17 June 2022 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

Question 1

As of 5 July 2022, 2,020 claims have been submitted to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme in respect of COVID-19 vaccinations.

Question 2

As of 5 July 2022, 123 claims have been or are in the process of being assessed by independent medical assessors.

Question 3

As of 5 July 2022, following medical assessment, nine COVID-19 claims have met the criteria for a vaccine damage payment.

Question 4

As of 5 July 2022, nine COVID-19 claims did not meet the scheme's eligibility criteria and therefore we were unable to progress them to the medical assessment stage. This is because they were either:

a claim relating to a COVID-19 vaccination administered outside of the UK and Isle of Man

a duplicate of a claim that we had already received

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