An MP has called for changes to the compensation scheme for the infected blood scandal.

More than 30,000 people who received NHS treatment between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood.

Many contracted a number of viruses including hepatitis C and HIV.

Some 3,000 died as a result and survivors are living with lifelong health implications.

Eastleigh MP Liz Jarvis asked the Government to ensure that if a person begins a successful claim before they die, compensation will go to their estate.

She told MPs: "The infected blood scandal campaign organisation Factor 8 has highlighted that the guidance on the infected blood compensation authority website states – ‘should an eligible affected person die during the application process to the scheme their compensation award will not be paid.

"This is in line with the inquiry’s compensation recommendation’."

"However, Factor 8 has examined the inquiry’s second interim report, and in the summary of conclusions on page 14 at conclusion T, Sir Brian Langstaff says ‘where an affected person who has not made a claim dies, the sums that they might have received if they had claimed should not become part of their estate’.

“The key wording is, ‘who has not made a claim’. So will the Government update its policy and ensure all affected persons who make an eligible claim have their claim honoured?