The available data are given in the table. Decisions to award settlement are taken by the Metropolitan Police Service and the Metropolitan Police Authority.
Under the Normington Review proposals, the Home Office has stopped collecting information on compensation claims from April 2009, in order to reduce the bureaucratic burden on police forces and free up officers to focus on tackling local crime.
Figures on individual cases are not collected centrally.
£ 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Amount of monetary settlements paid however the employment tribunal orders at the end of the case Other Discrimination 63,750 399,385 90,000 69,500 324,000 Race Discrimination 189,700 140,450 141,667 23,000 4,375 Sex Discrimination 97,000 165,200 148,500 31,750 191,290 Amount of awards paid in employment tribunal Other Discrimination 0 0 0 11,380 0 Race Discrimination 0 13,980 0 0 0 Sex Discrimination 0 0 53,415 0 0 Note: Data have been validated and confirmed by the Metropolitan police.