Infected blood scandal LIVE: Reaction as long-awaited report lifts lid on cover up of ‘worst treatment disaster’ in NHS with 3,000 avoidable deaths [Video]

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is widely expected to issue an apology in Parliament later today.

Whitehall sources expect NHS chief Amanda Pritchard to issue her own apology for the worst treatment disgrace in the history of the health service.

Tomorrow ministers will set out plans for a massive compensation scheme, which could cost taxpayers more than £10 billion.

Campaigners believe those infected with hepatitis C and HIV could receive payments of around £1.4million.

Interim compensation payments of £100,000 have been made to around 4,000 infected people or bereaved partners.

Ministers recently announced that these interim payments would be extended to the ‘estates of the deceased’.

Campaigners have hailed the publication of the report as the ‘end of a 40-year fight’.