Paymaster General John Glen has told the Commons that final compensation payments for infected blood victims will begin by the end of the year.
He also confirms payments of £210,000 will be made to "living infected beneficiaries" as well as those who register with a support scheme.
It comes after a public inquiry found that the scandal was "not an accident" – and its failures lay with "successive governments, the NHS, and blood services".
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