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Hundreds of people in the UK infected with contaminated blood and relatives of those infected are going ahead with plans to sue the health secretary for damages, having been left dissatisfied with the government’s announcement on compensation . A group claim by about 500 people against the government alleging it breached a duty to take reasonable care to prevent personal injury or loss, amounting to misfeasance in public office, began in 2017 but was paused pending the inquiry into the scandal, which published its final report on Monday . Explaining the reason for looking to reinstate the lawsuit despite the government’s announcement of a compensation framework, Des Collins, of Collins Solicitors, said: “The reason we’ve done that is we started the week off on a high with the [Sir Brian] Langstaff report saying pretty much everything we’ve said for seven years.

“Then we went on to Rishi [Sunak] and his abject apology in the House [of Commons] on Monday afternoon, the announcement of a compensation framework on Tuesday, but it wasn’t until we got the first draft of paperwork on that compensation recovery programme that we realised that there are holes and gaps in it.” He said the headline figures for the government scheme, which suggested that some people could get more than £2.5m in compensation, were not all that they seemed and that his clients felt “bounced into settlement”.



The death toll, which already stands at 3,000, is rising weekly among the 30,0.

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