A compensation scheme could be set up for thousands of ‘disabled people’ by AstraZeneca Jab

The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that the jab, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases. The government has shielded AstraZeneca from any legal action but has so far refused to intervene.

Sir Jeremy Wright MP, the shadow attorney general, attended the meeting with Mr Streeting and VIBUK last month and has planned a follow-up meeting with him in the coming weeks.

“The two options are to reform the VDPS and set up a tailor-made compensation scheme,” he said. “But it is not an option for the government to bury its head in the sand and do nothing.

“If you are in the very small minority of those who have been injured (by the Covid vaccine), those people have a right to expect the state to take good care of them – they only did what the state asked of them .”

More than 15,000 people have done so requested compensation from the VDPS due to alleged damage caused by Covid vaccines, according to the latest official figures.

Of the 15,804 claims submitted to the VDPS by those who have had an adverse reaction to the Covid jab, only 188 have been told they are entitled to payment.

The figures, released by the government following freedom of information requests, show that the vast majority of successful claims are for the AstraZeneca vaccine, with fewer than five linked to Pfizer and Moderna.