The Infected Blood Scandal Payouts

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the pay-outs to victims of the infected blood scandal.

The government has pledged to push ahead with compensation payments from the end of 2024, and announced that victims will receives payments for life. Adam is joined by Nick Thomas-Symonds, Paymaster General, to discuss the scandal and how the government will pay for it.

Plus, are there more rail strikes on the way? What about in the health service? Adam speaks to political correspondent Nick Eardley.

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You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, shall we begin this episode of newscast with a little bit of shameless self-promotion
0:10.1	during the weekends in the summer when Laura is away on holiday and her show's not on air and she does work very hard so of course she's allowed a holiday
0:17.3	We are doing a series of interviews with interesting people where they just talk about their interesting lives
0:24.0	and their interesting thoughts at quite some length
0:26.0	here on the newscast sofa.
0:28.0	Coming up this Sunday is Helen Sharman,
0:30.0	Britain's first ever astronaut. And she's got lots of thoughts about space, the
0:37.0	economy of space, some of the risks from space travel and some of the risks to Earth
0:42.2	from space travel and some of the risks to Earth from space travel and just lots of
0:44.6	philosophical stuff about actually would it be ethical to send some people on a
0:49.4	one-way trip to Mars that was a bit spooky that, but you will be able to hear that in your
0:54.2	Newscast podcast feeds from Sunday. But let's get on with a classic normal newsfilled
1:00.0	episode of Newscast, although this one does have quite a big interview in it.
1:03.3	Newscast.
1:04.3	Newscast from the BBC.
1:06.3	The exit poll is predicting a labor landslide.
1:09.7	We did it!
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