More cash given to hepatitis sufferers

Improved financial support is to be given to people who contracted chronic hepatitis as a result of receiving infected blood from the NHS.

Victims were given blood products contaminated with hepatitis viruses and HIV in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Penrose Inquiry was established to look into the scandal.

The inquiry recommended the Scottish Government take all reasonable steps to offer an HCV test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991.