Open Registration
Infected Blood Inquiry · Additional Report on Compensation · Issued 9 July 2025 · Addressed to: IBCA
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The scheme be opened to registration to everyone who may be eligible.
Infected Blood Inquiry, Additional Report on Compensation · 9 Jul 2025 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- IBCA confirmed that registration is open to infected persons, affected persons, and estates of deceased infected persons via ibca.org.uk (IBCA Community Update, January 2026).
- As of 13 January 2026, 3,721 people had been asked to start claims (IBCA Community Update, January 2026).
Sources
How was this evidence gathered?
Response — verbatim from government
●IBCA
The remaining 11 recommendations focus on IBCA delivery. Further detail on these will be set out by IBCA in due course.
IBCA · 21 Jul 2025 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 21 Jul 2025 Registration is open to infected persons, affected persons, and estates of deceased infected persons via ibca.org.uk. As of 12 March 2026, 17,511 registrations of intent have been received: 1,133 from living infected persons, 13,651 from living affected persons, 319 from living infected and affected persons, and 2,408 on behalf of deceased infected persons. (Source: IBCA Community Update, 12 March 2026) Source →
- 15 Jan 2026 · IBCA Community Update As of 13 January 2026: 3,721 people asked to start claims, 3,546 begun process, 3,074 received offers totalling £2.47bn, 2,861 paid totalling £1.89bn. Third compensation regulations in force 31 December 2025. View source → Good Progress
- 31 Dec 2025 · UK Parliament Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 established IBCA. Three sets of scheme regulations in force (Aug 2024, Mar 2025, Dec 2025). First payments December 2024. £1.89bn paid to 2,861 people by January 2026. View source → Good Progress
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