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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to unveil a ￡10billion compensation package for the victims of the contaminated blood scandal next week.
The final inquiry report into what is considered to be the worst treatment disaster in the history of the health service is due on Monday.
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Ministers are set to outline payments to tens of thousands of people who were given contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
Around 3,000 people given infected blood by the health service over that period have already died.
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said on Sunday the cases were one of the most shameful failures of government he had seen.
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Asked if the process of compensation had taken too long, even in recent years, Mr Shapps said: "Yes, I think it has been too slow, of course I do."
It had been a "massive injustice which needs to be put right" and ministers would act on the report, he added.
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Mr Hunt has told how he promised to “sort” a fair and full settlement during a meeting with campaigner Mike Dorricott in 2014.
Mr Dorricott was 46 at the time and had learned just weeks before meeting Mr Hunt that he had terminal liver cancer – a disease linked to the hepatitis C he contracted as a teenager from contaminated Factor 8 blood products.
After telling his family the news that he only had months to live, he visited the then health secretary, Mr Hunt, in Whitehall.
He told the future Chancellor he was angry that infected patients and their families had not received a full and fair settlement.
Towards the end of the meeting, Mr Hunt shook his hand and said: “Don’t worry about this, we’ll sort it.”
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Just a few months later, Mr Dorricott died, aged just 47.
Mr Hunt said: “I imagine after that meeting that Mike thought that he’d been fobbed off by yet another politician giving him the runaround.
“But what Mike didn’t know was that he really had made a huge impression on me.”
Mr Hunt said the money will be funded through Government borrowing.
He added that the Government would look “very sympathetically” on any request from the victims or families for a national memorial.
Mr Dorricott’s widow, Ann, 57, told the paper that the announcement “brings me solace”.
“It brings me solace to know that even in death, Mike continues to make a difference,” she said.
“He was a pillar of strength, fighting for justice until his last breath and his absence is deeply felt every day.
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“I know that Mike always held Jeremy Hunt in high regard, and even though it has taken 10 years, he would be pleased that justice is finally being delivered to the victims.”
Up to 6,000 people with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders were infected with hepatitis and 1,250 of these were co-infected with both hepatitis and HIV.
Of the group who were infected with both hepatitis C and HIV, only around 250 are still alive today.
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