(2) what the 10 highest payments made to civil servants in his Department under the Civil Service no-fault compensation scheme have been on each ground for payment since the scheme was established.
There is no “civil service no-fault compensation scheme”. However, the civil service injury benefits scheme (CSIBS) pays benefits regardless of whether injury or death of an employee results from the negligence of the Crown as the employer. For this reason, benefits are sometimes described as being paid on a no-fault basis. This answer is therefore based on the CSIBS.
The aim of the CSIBS is to provide a guaranteed level of income to the civil servant (or a dependant) where an injury (or death) at work results in the loss of earnings or earnings capacity. No compensation is paid for pain or suffering and benefits are reduced or expunged where damages are awarded for the same accident. Benefits are not payable where the injury or death is wholly or mainly due to the person’s own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct.
Departmental records do not provide the value of CSIBS payments in such a way as to allow the questions to be answered as presented and to do so would incur disproportionate cost. However, in the period April to October 2009 the overall value of permanent awards was £378,622.51. By comparison, in the same period the armed forces compensation scheme paid out £19 million to members of the armed forces injured due to service, and the dependents of those killed due to service.