Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average amount of compensation awarded by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to victims of terrorism was in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
This information can only be provided for financial years 2017/18 & 2018/19. Information from previous financial years has been archived in line with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s (CICA) data retention policy.
Terrorism is not defined for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. Victims are compensated for the injuries they have sustained rather than the nature of the incident (with the exception of sexual assault or abuse).
To support consistent decision-making, CICA does record the nature of the incident where it identifies the potential for multiple applications in relation to the same circumstances. The data below relates to applicants who have been identified as victims of terrorism for this purpose and is calculated on the basis of the first compensation award made on an application.
Period | Average amount of compensation awarded | Number of compensation awards made | Total amount of compensation awarded |
2017-18 | £9,075 | 75 | £680,643 |
2018-19 | £4,317 | 220 | £949,687 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation awards have been made to victims of terrorism by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
This information can only be provided for financial years 2017/18 & 2018/19. Information from previous financial years has been archived in line with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s (CICA) data retention policy.
Terrorism is not defined for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. Victims are compensated for the injuries they have sustained rather than the nature of the incident (with the exception of sexual assault or abuse).
To support consistent decision-making, CICA does record the nature of the incident where it identifies the potential for multiple applications in relation to the same circumstances. The data below relates to applicants who have been identified as victims of terrorism for this purpose and is calculated on the basis of the first compensation award made on an application.
Period | Average amount of compensation awarded | Number of compensation awards made | Total amount of compensation awarded |
2017-18 | £9,075 | 75 | £680,643 |
2018-19 | £4,317 | 220 | £949,687 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether compensation awarded to victims of terrorism by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is ring-fenced from the wider budget for compensation for victims of violent crime.
Answered by Edward Argar
Compensation awarded to victims of terrorism in Great Britain, under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012, is made from the overall compensation budget available to the 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, what proportion of applications for compensation as a result of being the victim of terrorism were granted by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
This information can only be provided for financial years 2017/18 & 2018/19. Information from previous financial years has been archived in line with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s (CICA) data retention policy.
Terrorism is not defined for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. Victims are compensated for the injuries they have sustained rather than the nature of the incident (with the exception of sexual assault or abuse).
To support consistent decision-making, CICA does record the nature of the incident where it identifies the potential for multiple applications in relation to the same circumstances. The data below relates to applicants who have been identified as victims of terrorism for this purpose.
The table below shows the proportion of applications from victims of terrorism which were granted by the CICA, expressed as a percentage of the applications from victims of terrorism which were resolved in the same year.
Period | Proportion |
2017-18 | 87% |
2018-19 | 69% |
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 decisions made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority on applications for compensation were appealed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
The table below shows the number and proportion of first decisions made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in each year since 2010-11 which were subsequently appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT).
It should be noted that the year the decision was made and the year it was subsequently appealed may be different.
Period | Number of first decisions subsequently appealed to the FTT | Proportion |
2010-11 | 2,302 | 4.18% |
2011-12 | 2,461 | 4.39% |
2012-13 | 1,998 | 3.87% |
2013-14 | 1,578 | 3.92% |
2014-15 | 1,356 | 4.02% |
2015-16 | 1,092 | 4.14% |
2016-17 | 1,136 | 3.83% |
2017-18 | 1,419 | 3.58% |
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 decisions made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority on applications for compensation were overturned on appeal in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
The table below shows the number and proportion of decisions made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in each year since 2010-11 which were subsequently overturned on appeal.
There are a number of decisions made where the appeal outcome is yet to be determined.
Period | Number of decisions overturned on appeal | Proportion |
2010-11 | 876 | 1.59% |
2011-12 | 858 | 1.53% |
2012-13 | 580 | 1.12% |
2013-14 | 290 | 0.72% |
2014-15 | 173 | 0.51% |
2015-16 | 92 | 0.35% |
2016-17 | 92 | 0.31% |
2017-18 | 75 | 0.19% |
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 successful applications made for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme took longer than 12 months to process in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar
The table below shows the number and proportion of applications for compensation received in each year since 2010-11 in which a decision to award compensation was made (i.e. were successful) at first decision, review or appeal and took longer than 12 months to process.
Where an application is appealed, the timeframes for listing and deciding the appeal are determined by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service and are out with the control of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Period | Number of successful applications which took longer than 12 months to process | Proportion of all successful applications |
2010-11 | 8,765 | 26.5% |
2011-12 | 9,633 | 29.9% |
2012-13 | 10,357 | 39.9% |
2013-14 | 6,902 | 47.1% |
2014-15 | 7,408 | 51.3% |
2015-16 | 8,322 | 62.7% |
2016-17 | 5,321 | 41.4% |
2017-18 | 1,705 | 13.5% |
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 cost of submitting an application for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
Answered by Edward Argar
There is no cost to submit an application for compensation to the 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 much money has been raised by the Victims Surchage in each year since 2010.
Answered by Robert Buckland
Income from the Victim Surcharge contributes to the Ministry of Justices’ Victim and Witness Budget (“the Budget”). This budget is used to fund Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) who commission local support services for victims, and nationally commissioned support services including the National Homicide Service, Rape Support Centres, and the Court Based Witness Service. Income from the Victim Surcharge is forecast into the Budget at the beginning of each financial year. However, actual income raised from the Surcharge will fluctuate each year (depending on the amount imposed and collection rates). Should revenue raised from the Surcharge go above the forecast amount, the excess is put towards compensating victims through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
Overall amounts are set out in the table below:
Financial Year | Victim Surcharge (VS) Collected *[1] | VS contribution to the Victim and Witness Budget* | Overall Victim and Witness Budget* |
2010/11 | £11m | £11m | £48m |
2011/12 | £10m | £10m | £48m |
2012/13 | £11m | £11m | £50m |
2013/14 | £20m | £20m | £57m |
2014/15 | £25m | £25m | £86m |
2015/16 | £28m | £18m | £92m |
2016/17 | £31m | £27m | £96m |
2017/18 | £35m | £31m | £97m |
*The amounts listed in the table have been rounded to the nearest £1m.