On the first anniversary of the public investigation report, campaigners said compensation for infected blood victims needs to be delivered faster.

"We are dying at speed and the government needs to work at Pace, not just talk about it," one campaigner said Tuesday.

Minister Diana Johnson, who has served as a member of the Labor Congress for many years, said it was a disappointment to hear how slow the process was.

But Cabinet Office Secretary Nick Thomas Symonds said the government was “committed to providing compensation as soon as possible”.

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV or hepatitis C or two after contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. About 3,000 people died.

In a final report released a year ago, the inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff said the scandal was largely avoidable and involved system failure.

Campaigners are expected to pay quickly, but so far, only 100 people have received spending.

They gathered in Westminster on Tuesday to hand over a letter to Sir Kyle Starmer and said they were concerned about lack of progress.

"Twelve months after the devastating report from infected blood inquiries is published, the contaminated blood community remains deeply concerned that politics is continuing to fail them," the letter said.

“With the infected blood inquiry heard on May 7, 2025, the voice of the community is not present when the infected blood compensation program is derived. The resulting program contains basic flaws that may and would have been foreseeable.”

Current Home Minister Diana Johnson, MP, told the BBC only that she praised the BBC News, her focus on the campaigners and sympathized with their arguments.

“I’m disappointed to hear how slow the process is and I’m totally grateful for the concerns that many of the people who are coming together today want to pay people,” she said.

"Over the average person knows that someone dies every few weeks, so you have to pay. But the money is there."

When asked if she could use her position as minister to file a lawsuit, she said she spoke with the BBC as a constituency MP.

Jacqueline Wrixton, who has contracted hepatitis C due to a blood transfusion, said: “It’s been a year since the recommended rejoice “Happy Distance”, but as an infected person… about two weeks a week dying statistics, we still haven’t paid.

"We're dying at speed, and the government needs to work at speed, not just talk about it. We need to see action."

Cabinet Office Minister Thomas Symonds said: “The victims of this scandal have suffered a lot.

“After decades of delays, the government has taken action lowered. We are acting on the 12 recommendations investigated, so this recommendation will never happen again and provide justice for the victims.

“Although people have not made up for the suffering they have endured, we are committed to providing compensation as quickly as possible.”