The government announcement comes after Sir Robert Francis, the interim chair of the new Infected Blood Compensation Authority, reviewed the recommendations put forward for the scheme by the public inquiry.
He suggested a number of changes which have been accepted by ministers.
These include additional payments for those subjected to “unethical research”.
This includes an extra £15,000 for those who went to Treloar’s boarding school in Hampshire where children were given higher-risk treatments in order to further medical research.
Richard Warwick, who has haemophilia and went on to develop hepatitis B and c and HIV after he was given blood products to treat his clotting disorder while he was at the school for disabled children between 1976 and 1982, described the sum as “derogatory and insulting”.
“I don’t know where they have got [the amount] from – they seem to have plucked it out of the air,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“It is insulting… not only to the children who managed to live through what was done to them at school but also to the parents of children who died and their wider families.
“How they have come up with this figure is beyond comprehension.”
Sir Robert also suggested the existing support scheme that is currently in place should continue. Originally it had been proposed this would end.
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said: “This is an important milestone for victims and campaigners who have waited too long for justice. We’re going to do everything possible to deliver compensation quickly.”
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