Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 08 July 2019 to Question 261492, on Criminal Injuries Compensation, if she will publish the same information for each year since 2017-18.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information in the table below sets out the criminal injuries compensation spend for each of the years shown (as published in the CICA Annual Report and Accounts). It does not include compensation awarded under the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme.
Year | Compensation Spend |
2017/18 | £155,840,000 |
2018/19 | £130,359,000 |
2019/20 | £194,839,000 |
2020/21 | £153,367,000 |
2021/22 | £158,192,000 |
2022/23 | £173,089,000 |
2023/24 | £164,620,000 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice holds one contract with BFS Group, under Bidfood, for the supply of food to all public prisons. Details can be found at: Prisoner & Non-Prisoner Food Supply - Contracts Finder.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average processing time was for applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme by people resident in Birmingham in each of the last five years.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The table below shows the average time for decisions to be made on applications* for criminal injuries compensation by people resident in Birmingham**.
Calendar Year of CICA decision | Average time (days) |
2020 | 335 |
2021 | 440 |
2022 | 490 |
2023 | 381 |
2024 | 372 |
* The table does not include archived bereavement applications because the address of the applicant is not retained. In most cases, applications are archived three years after the case has been closed.
** The above table includes all awards where the applicant named Birmingham as the city in their home address in their application.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in Birmingham received awards under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the value of those awards was.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The table below provides the number of compensation awards paid in each of the last five calendar years to applicants living in Birmingham.
Number of compensation awards paid to applicants living in Birmingham* **:
Calendar Year | Number of awards paid | Total value of those awards |
2020 | 340 | £2,746,670 |
2021 | 294 | £3,055,441 |
2022 | 248 | £2,624,286 |
2023 | 347 | £3,866,507 |
2024 | 294 | £3,074,242 |
* The above table includes all awards where the applicant named Birmingham as the city in their home address in their application.
**The table does not include archived bereavement applications because the address of the applicant is not retained. In most cases, applications are archived three years after the case has been closed.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of legal cases against schools for claimed (a) disability discrimination and (b) a failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), which includes disability discrimination in schools, is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
Failure to make reasonable adjustments is not recorded as a separate category of disability discrimination.
Those claims will be included in the “uncategorised” data set.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to respond to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review 2020, published on 16 July 2020.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The previous Government held three consultations, in 2020, 2022 and 2023, as part of its review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012. It did not publish a response to these consultations prior to the 2024 election.
This Government is looking at how we can best support victims of crime. As part of this we are considering the previous review of the Scheme, and further updates will be provided in due course.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking a review of the jailing of the Cammell Laird workers who took strike action in 1984.
Answered by Heidi Alexander - Secretary of State for Transport
I can confirm that my department will consider and explore options for carrying out a review into these events. If the member wishes to write with more information I will provide him with a further update once this matter has been considered.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parents or young people have taken Birmingham City Council to appeal at a tribunal against an Education, Care and Health Plan decision in each of the last five years; and what (a) number and (b) proportion of those appeals were (i) determined in favour of the appellants, (ii) determined in favour of the local authority, (iii) withdrawn, (iv) conceded before the hearing, and (v) still awaiting a hearing.
Answered by Heidi Alexander - Secretary of State for Transport
Information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The table below sets out the number of appeals to the SEND Tribunal against decisions made by Birmingham City Council for the academic years 2019 to 2022 (the latest period for which data are available); and the numbers of those appeals that were (i) determined in favour of the appellants, (ii) determined in favour of the local authority, (iii) withdrawn, (iv) conceded before the hearing, and (v) still awaiting a hearing.
Appellants would include appeals made by parents and young persons.
Academic year | Total appeals registered | Total appeals determined in favour of the appellants | Total appeals determined in favour of the local authority | Total appeals withdrawn | Conceded before the hearing | Awaiting a hearing date |
2020 | 291 | 180 | 10 | 32 | 65 | 0 |
2021 | 547 | 367 | 31 | 48 | 89 | 1 |
2022 | 525 | 365 | 10 | 52 | 84 | 12 |
2023 | Data is not currently published | |||||
1- Appeal data is only available for 3 years due to record retention policy.
2- Appeals registered and appeals concluded will not tally due to spanning over academic years.