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David Cameron has told a contaminated blood victim that he will address the way haemophiliacs are funded.
The Prime Minister met with Whitney resident Dave Leadbitter, who he also represents as constituency MP, earlier this week.
Mr Leadbitter told BBC Radio Oxfordshire:
"He was very positive, he’s definitely going to look at the way the payments of the Skipton fund is distributed through to the haemophiliacs that were contaminated.
"He can understand the problems that we’re having. I wrote to him a long time ago before he was Prime Minister.
"He was concerned about the fact that there was an independent inquiry and not a really a government inquiry into it."
Mr Leadbitter, who contracted hepatitis C, said: "We were just told it was going to be a dormant virus in our bodies.
"This problem is still out there, we’ve never been properly compensated in a fair way.
"I was given £20,000 ex-gratia payment [from the Skipton Fund] and I have more money in the pot for me if I progress to liver cancer and get worse."
Contaminated blood campaigners are said to be satisfied with the outcome of their protest in Westminster last Wednesday.
Around 200 demonstrators marched along Whitehall to deliver letters to No 10 Downing Street, meet with MPs and some also met with officials from the Department of Health.
The Contaminated Blood Bill was introduced by Lord Morris of Manchester in the House of Lords after the new session began in June.
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