Consultation on Redress Regulations For Truth Recovery Standardised Payment Scheme

What is the purpose of the consultation?

This consultation seeks views on secondary legislation (Regulations) which are necessary to establish the redress scheme formally.

The  Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill was passed on the 30 June 2026 and will become a law (an Act) following a process called Royal Assent, which is likely to be in Autumn 2026.

This is called the primary legislation and it sets out the main things that the new law will do, including key elements like:

• who is eligible for a Standardised Payment; and
• creating an independent Redress Service to make payments.

Eligibility for Standardised Payment

The Standardised Payment is an acknowledgement payment to recognise the impact of Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Institutions.  A person may qualify if, during the time period covered in the Bill, they were:

• admitted to a relevant institution;
• born to a mother who was in the care of a relevant institution;
• the spouse/partner or child of a deceased eligible person who died after 28 April 1953

Independent Redress Service

The Bill establishes an independent body known as the Truth Recovery Redress Service, which will receive applications, check official records to verify admission and make payments.

Redress Regulations

The Regulations set out the necessary procedures to help everyone to understand what to do and how to do it. They are meant to help make the process clear, consistent and fair. They also give the Redress Service enough flexibility to deal with practical problems, such as missing documents or incomplete records, while still applying the same rules to everyone.

This survey seeks views on the policy underpinning the Regulations and not the legal text itself, which may be in a different format or order than what is presented here.