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<p>All routine policy, including the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), is reviewed
on a regular basis. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social
Care is currently looking into aspects of the scheme, following recent meetings with
interested stakeholders.</p><p>Separately, work is underway with the scheme’s administrator,
the NHS Business Service Authority, to review processes and make administrative changes,
to improve the scheme within the current legislative framework. Formal consideration
of whether any reforms to the VDPS are necessary will form part of Module 4 of the
COVID-19 Inquiry, chaired by the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Carol Hallett DBE.</p>
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