The chairman of the Infected Blood Inquiry has said more than 4,000 surviving victims of the scandal should receive £100,000 each in provisional compensation.
In his interim report Sir Brian Langstaff recommends an interim payment of no less than £100,000 to victims of the scandal and bereaved partners registered on the UK infected blood schemes.
The inquiry was established to examine how thousands of patients in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
It has heard months of evidence on how people have faced significant and life-changing physical and mental pain and suffering as a result of the scandal.
About 2,400 people died in what has been labelled the wo
