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UK prime minister to face Kemi Badenoch in the Commons before talks with french presidentSir Brian Langstaff, chair of the infected blood inquiry, is today publishing a report on how the compensation payment process is working for victims. When he published his main report into the scandal last year, he reserved the right to come back and monitor progress on compensation and, at a hearing in May, he heard evidence about victims being been “re-traumatised” by delays to – and flaws in – the scheme.In his interview on the Today progamme, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet Office minister, insisted the government was not causing delays.Over 600 have been paid, and we’ve paid out over £488m … My priority is to ensure that we’re not creating even further delay after decades of injustice. Continue reading...

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