Virtue ethics and the United Kingdom (UK) Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS)

Cases

Correspondence

• Email from DWP Central Freedom of Information Team to author (23 December 2020). Ref: FOI2020/80,394.
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• Email from Mrs Susan Bond (VDPU) to author (13 October 2020).
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Early Day Motions

• EDM 1646 Payments for Workers Damaged by Vaccines, 2008-09.
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• The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011/517.
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• The Damages for Bereavement (Variation of Sum) (England and Wales) Order 2020/316.
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• The Regulatory Reform (Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979) Order 2002/1592.
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• The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008/2833.
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• The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2007/1931.
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• The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020/1411.
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