Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many qualifying relatives have been awarded compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
A relative of a person who has died as a direct result of sustaining a criminal injury may be eligible for a payment under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme if they are defined as a ‘qualifying relative’. The following types of payment may only be made to ‘qualifying relatives’: (a) a bereavement payment; (b) a child’s payment; or (c) a dependency payment.
A number of ‘qualifying relatives’ may also receive other payments under the Scheme which are not directly connected to their status as ‘qualifying relatives’.
The table below shows the number of resolved cases per financial year in which one or more payments were made to qualifying relatives. Some qualifying relatives may have received more than one payment.
Financial Year | Bereavement Award | Child Payment | Dependency Payment |
2010/11 | 910 | 213 | 34 |
2011/12 | 872 | 203 | 15 |
2012/13 | 873 | 203 | 25 |
2013/14 | 886 | 242 | 49 |
2014/15 | 824 | 185 | 68 |
2015/16 | 651 | 151 | 46 |
2016/17 | 818 | 177 | 9 |
2017/18 | 1129 | 279 | 87 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) child, (b) dependency, (c) funeral and (d) bereavement compensation payments were made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The table below shows the number of resolved cases per financial year in which one or more of the following payments were made. There may be overlap in the numbers for each type of payment because some applicants may have received more than one payment.
Financial Year | Child Payment | Dependency Payment | Funeral Expenses | Bereavement Award |
2010/11 | 213 | 34 | 354 | 910 |
2011/12 | 203 | 15 | 335 | 872 |
2012/13 | 203 | 25 | 338 | 873 |
2013/14 | 242 | 49 | 341 | 886 |
2014/15 | 185 | 68 | 307 | 824 |
2015/16 | 151 | 46 | 259 | 651 |
2016/17 | 177 | 9 | 341 | 818 |
2017/18 | 279 | 87 | 454 | 1129 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of payments provided by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme were (a) child, (b) dependency, (c) funeral and (d) bereavement compensation payments in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The table below shows the proportion of cases in which a relevant payment was made in each financial year. This is expressed as a percentage of the volume of resolved cases in which an award was made. More than one type of payment may have been made to each eligible applicant.
Financial Year | Bereavement Award | Child Payment | Dependency Payment | Funeral Payment |
2010/11 | 2.8% | 0.6% | 0.1% | 1.1% |
2011/12 | 3.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 1.1% |
2012/13 | 4.6% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 1.8% |
2013/14 | 5.7% | 1.5% | 0.3% | 2.2% |
2014/15 | 6.2% | 1.4% | 0.5% | 2.3% |
2015/16 | 4.7% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.9% |
2016/17 | 4.9% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 2.0% |
2017/18 | 7.5% | 1.8% | 0.6% | 3.0% |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of claims under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme were rejected as a result of the injury not qualifying for compensation in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This information is shown in the table below.
The first column shows the number of resolved cases in which an award was refused because the injury did not qualify for an award. As more than one reason for refusal may be provided in any case, the figures below may include cases which were also refused on other grounds.
The second column expresses this number as a proportion of all cases resolved per year.
Financial Year | 1. Number | 2. Proportion |
2010/11 | 8862 | 14% |
2011/12 | 7839 | 14% |
2012/13 | 7406 | 14% |
2013/14 | 8444 | 20% |
2014/15 | 7584 | 21% |
2015/16 | 5451 | 19% |
2016/17 | 4282 | 13% |
2017/18 | 6630 | 16% |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received payments from the criminal injuries compensation scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The number of people who received payments under the criminal injuries compensation schemes in each financial year from 2010/11 is detailed in the table below.
Financial Year | Number of people who received payments |
2010/11 | 39,706 |
2011/12 | 32,869 |
2012/13 | 29,245 |
2013/14 | 18,984 |
2014/15 | 15,681 |
2015/16 | 13,245 |
2016/17 | 13,856 |
2017/18 | 16,781 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount awarded to to victims by the criminal injuries compensation scheme was in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The total compensation awarded under the criminal injuries compensation schemes, including the victims of overseas terrorism compensation scheme, in each financial year is available in the CICA Annual Report these are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=criminal-injuries-compensation-authority
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family court centres have stopped operating in each region of the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service is responsible for the administration of the family courts in England and Wales only.
The structure of the family court was changed by the creation of the Single Family Court in April 2014 which led to the creation of Designated Family Courts New family courts, East London and West London Family Courts were established as part of these reforms and these courts, and the Central Family Courts, absorbed much of the work which had previously been dealt with at twenty three County and Family Proceedings Courts. It is not possible to provide details of court closures prior to April 2014.
Details of family court closures from 2014-2019 are set out in the table below:
Location | 2014 (from 22 April 2014) | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (to 5 April 2019) |
London | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
South East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
South West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family courts centres have stopped operating in the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service is responsible for the administration of the family courts in England and Wales only.
The structure of the family court was changed by the creation of the Single Family Court in April 2014 which led to the creation of Designated Family Courts New family courts, East London and West London Family Courts were established as part of these reforms and these courts, and the Central Family Courts, absorbed much of the work which had previously been dealt with at twenty three County and Family Proceedings Courts. It is not possible to provide details of court closures prior to April 2014.
Details of family court closures from 2014-2019 are set out in the table below:
Location | 2014 (from 22 April 2014) | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (to 5 April 2019) |
London | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
South East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
South West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount of spending commitments was that his Department made in its post-implementation LASPO review.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Alongside the post-implementation review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO), we published the Legal Support Action Plan which outlines the steps the Government will be taking over the next two years to enhance the breadth of support to people experiencing legal problems.
We are funding a number of changes to legal aid, including; improving the exceptional case funding scheme, removing the mandatory element of the CLA telephone gateway and expanding the scope of legal aid to include Special Guardianship Orders in private family law.
Alongside this, we are delivering £5m in innovation funding to drive change across the sector and doubling our funding to support litigants in person to £3m for each of the next two years. We will be funding a series of pilots to build a robust evidence base, testing methods of delivering support to make sure that people can access the right type of support at the right time, in the right way for them.
The outcomes and evidence base that we will build up through the projects announced in the Legal Support Action Plan will inform future decisions on how we deliver that support.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of child contact cases which involved allegations of domestic abuse in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Ministry of Justice does not hold the requested data. A revised version of Practice Direction 12J, which sets out a framework for judges to use in child arrangements cases where there is a context of domestic abuse, was introduced in October 2017. This makes clear that judges must take appropriate steps to explore any allegations of domestic abuse and give full regard to the impact of any abuse when making a child arrangement order.