ITV News understands some victims were updated on the timeline after ministers agreed to a three-month deadline to establish an official scheme.
ITV News understands some victims were updated on the timeline after ministers agreed to a three-month deadline to establish an official scheme, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports
Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, but the government has been Mr Hunt declined to give an exact timescale but said: "I think we have made a commitment that within 20 Parliamentary days or something like that we will do it, but we're not going to hang around for as long as possible, we want to do this as soon as possible."In the face of a further defeat in the Lords, the administration agreed to a Labour-led demand for a system to be in place within three months of the Victims and Prisoners Bill becoming law.
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