Criminal Injuries Compensation

Mr. Clegg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much compensation was granted by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in each of the last five years, broken down by postcode area of the address of the recipient. (127879)

The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many applications for compensation have been received by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in the last 12 months; (128431)

(2) how many applicants for compensation through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority have received payments in the last 12 months;

(3) what the cumulative total is of payments made to applicants for compensation through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in the last 12 months.

The information requested is shown in the following table:

*Criminal Injuries Compensation scheme: Data for the 12 months 1 March 2006 to 28 February 2007*
	Tariff scheme	Old (pre-1996) scheme
New applications received	59,316	0
Applications re-opened on medical grounds¹	150	53
Number of payments made²	33,901	78
Compensation paid (£ million)	171.3	18.9
Total compensation paid (£ million)	190.2
¹ This records the number of cases re-opened on medical grounds in the 12 months ending 28-02-2007. ² This records the number of payments made during the period. If a claim has had more than one payment during the period, it is only counted once. If the same victim has had payments on separate claims during the period, these are counted, but again only once for each claim. The table does not show the number of claimants whose applications are unsuccessful. On average, some 46 per cent. of claimants do not qualify for compensation under the scheme.

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007