Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal – including former Treloar’s students – will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100,000, the government announced last Wednesday.

It intends to make payments to those infected and bereaved partners in England by the end of October. The same payments will be made in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The commitment to pay interim compensation meets, in full, the recommendations set out by inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff in his interim report last month. That report built on a study by Sir Robert Francis QC in his detailed consideration of the issues.