Three-Cohort Prioritisation
Infected Blood Inquiry · Additional Report on Compensation · Issued 9 July 2025 · Addressed to: Infected Blood Compensation Authority
Government responseInfected Blood Compensation Authority: Accepted (Jul 2025)
DeliveryCabinet Office says in progress (Sep 2026)Infected Blood Compensation Authority says in progress (Sep 2026)
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
When IBCA opens up the service beyond people infected and registered with the support schemes, IBCA: (i) update the sequencing to three cohorts, people infected and never compensated, the deceased infected, and people affected and (ii) adopt a scheme of prioritisation within each cohort which can be objectively applied and is easily understandable and (iii) progress the cohorts in parallel not sequentially.
Infected Blood Inquiry, Additional Report on Compensation · 9 Jul 2025 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
In September 2026, Baroness Twycross, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office, stated that the Infected Blood Compensation Authority has opened its service to all cohorts and is contacting claimants across all groups in line with the Inquiry's prioritisation criteria for people at the end of life, with advanced liver disease, or aged 75 or over (Baroness Twycross, Sep 2026). Earlier that month, the authority announced an ambition to bring 5,000 claims to decision between April 2026 and March 2027, prioritising living infected and deceased infected cohorts (Infected Blood Compensation Authority, Sep 2026). Also in September 2026, Mark Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary at the department, reported that 1,099 people acting for deceased infected individuals had been invited to claim, with over £65 million paid out (Mark Ferguson, Sep 2026).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.
Government response
●Infected Blood Compensation Authority · Accepted · 21 Jul 2025
Today (Monday 21 July 2025) we have given our response to the Infected Blood Inquiry additional report published on 9 July. We accept all recommendations in the report for IBCA.
Response document: IBCA accepts recommendations in Infected Blood Inquiry additional report
Delivery
●Cabinet Office says in progress · 16 Sep 2026
HMG has regular engagement with IBCA to discuss progress. However, the delivery of compensation is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA), which has opened its service to all cohorts including affected people. IBCA is contacting people across all cohorts in line with the prioritisation criteria recommended by the Infected Blood Inquiry in its July 2025 Additional Report. These criteria provide that any claims for people that are at the end of life, with advanced liver disease, or from someone aged 75 or over, will be prioritised across all groups.
From: Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (written question UIN HL3026)
●Infected Blood Compensation Authority says in progress · 7 Sep 2026
Between April 2026 and March 2027, it is our ambition to bring 5,000 claims to decision. We’re prioritising claims from the infected groups, this includes those who are living infected and registered with an existing support scheme, living infected never compensated and deceased infected groups.
Earlier statements on delivery (0)
●Cabinet Office · 7 Sep 2026
The delivery of compensation is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). With regards to estates of deceased infected people, IBCA has asked each registered estate where there is a beneficiary who is nearing the end of their life, to start their claim, and is now contacting estates with beneficiaries aged 75 or over. This is in line with the prioritisation criteria recommended by the Infected Blood Inquiry in its July 2025 Additional Report.
As of 25 August 2026, 1,099 people acting on behalf of a deceased infected person have been asked to start their claim, with over £65 million paid. Where the deceased infected person was registered with an Infected Blood Support Scheme, IBCA is using all the information they have already provided to handle their claim, and only asks for additional information if there is any necessary information missing, such as date of diagnosis.
From: Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (written question UIN 24713)
●Cabinet Office · 17 Jul 2026
The delivery of compensation is a matter for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). IBCA has now opened its compensation service to all cohorts, including living infected people who have never been compensated, estates of deceased infected people, and affected people. While the Government and IBCA are aware that some people have sadly died before receiving their compensation under the scheme, IBCA are, in line with recommendations made by the Infected Blood Inquiry and feedback from community group sessions, prioritising claims starting with those who are sadly nearing end of life, those with advanced liver disease, and those who are over 75.
From: Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (written question UIN HL1932)
●Infected Blood Compensation Authority · 9 Jul 2026
We prioritise claims based on recommendations from the Infected Blood Inquiry. We are processing claims in stages.
We have asked everyone registered as living infected never compensated and nearing the end of their life to start their claim, and are now contacting people with advanced liver disease.
We have asked everyone who has registered to make a deceased infected claim with a beneficiary of an estate who is nearing the end of their life to start their claim, and are now contacting beneficiaries who are aged 75 or over.
We are currently asking living affected people who are nearing the end of their life to start their claim, and expect to soon have contacted everyone currently registered in this group. We will then contact people aged 75 or over to start their claim.
●Infected Blood Compensation Authority · 4 Jun 2026
We will continue to prioritise claims in the order recommended by the Infected Blood Inquiry, bringing in those who are sadly nearing the end of their life first.
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