Rishi Sunak: 'Unequivocal apology' for victims of infected blood scandal (2024)

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Rishi Sunak declared Monday a “day of shame for the British state” as he apologised for the failures of successive governments over the infected blood scandal and promised to pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims.

An individual who registers with a UK IBSS as an infected beneficiary (infected with HIV, Hepatitis C or both) on or after 21 May 2024 up until the Infected Blood Compensation Authority begins making payments under the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme will receive both the payment of £100,000 and the second payment ...

So, when a person with an eligible infection has been accepted onto the scheme… … their affected loved ones will be able to apply for compensation in their own right. That means partners, parents, siblings, children and friends and family who have acted as carers of those who were infected are all eligible to claim.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologises over infected blood scandal. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak directly addressed victims of the infected blood scandal and their families as he spoke in the Commons, saying "I want to make a wholehearted and unequivocal apology for this terrible injustice."

On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to ​Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and assimilation.

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How much compensation will victims get and when? Payments of £210,000 will be made to living infected beneficiaries, those registered with existing infected blood support schemes and those who register with the support scheme before the final scheme becomes operational, the Cabinet Office minister said.

The need for donated blood is constant since blood cannot be manufactured outside the body and can only be stored for a limited time before use. While 38% of the American population is eligible to give blood, only a small percentage donates.

If you had a blood transfusion or blood products before 1996, there's a chance you may have been given infected blood. This could mean you were infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV.

Why can't family members donate blood? ›

Due to the complexity of the ABO blood group genetics, parents may actually not be ABO compatible with their children. Therefore, even if parents donate, the blood components collected may not be suitable for their child's transfusions.

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On 13 February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, particularly the Stolen Generations, on behalf of the nation at Australian Parliament House. The Apology was presented as a motion for voting to the Chamber.

On the afternoon of 17 December 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt entered the surf at Cheviot Beach in Victoria. He was never seen again. Despite an exhaustive search, no body or other evidence was found.

“As I said, on reflection it was a mistake not to stay longer and I've apologised for that, but I also don't think it's right to be political in the midst of D-day commemorations. The focus should rightly be on the veterans and their service and sacrifice for our country.”

The earliest published use of apology we have evidence of comes from the title of a work by Sir Thomas More, the Catholic humanist and social philosopher of Henry VIII's court. The word appears in his 1533 work Apologye of Syr Thomas More, Knyght.

Budgets. Sunak delivered three budgets during his chancellorship, one in March 2020, and two in March and October of 2021. He also delivered three mini-budgets, the July 2020 summer statement, September 2020 Winter Economy Plan, and March 2022 spring statement.

Rishi Sunak's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 25 October 2022 when he accepted an invitation from King Charles III to form a government, succeeding Liz Truss, and ended upon his resignation on 5 July 2024. He is the first British Indian and the first Hindu to hold the office.