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 12 May 2025 to Question 50727 on Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority: Standards, what proportion of the respondents to that paper survey selected (a) very good, (b) good, (c) average, (d) poor and (e) very poor in 2023-24.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Of the respondents to the paper survey in 2023-34, (a) 53.2% selected very good, (b) 31.0% selected good, (c) 10.0% selected average, (d) 3.3% poor and (e) 2.5% selected very poor.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Table 9, on page 19 of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority's Annual Report and Accounts, published on 24 July 2024, what the wording of the question that measured overall satisfaction was; and what the response rate was to that question.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
When issuing decision letters by post at both first and review decision stage, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority includes a paper survey form that applicants can complete and return. The wording of the question used to measure overall satisfaction was “Overall how did you feel about the service you received throughout the claims process”. In response applicants can select very good, good, average, poor and very poor. In 2023-24, the response rate to this question was 5.6%* (2326 surveys returned).
*The survey is issued at both first and review decision stage meaning the same applicant may be asked to complete this more than once. The survey is not issued again for cases which are appealed to the First-tier Tribunal.
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 25 October 2012 to Question 124834, on Criminal Injuries Compensation, if she will uprate the figures given in that Answer to 2024 prices.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The following table sets out the value of each of the tariff bands in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) along with how much each of the tariff bands would be worth in 2012 and 2024, if they had increased by the rate of inflation since 1996 using each of the indices (a) RPI and (b) CPI:
Band | Tariff amount [1996] | (a) Inflated amount (RPI) [2012] | (b) Inflated amount (CPI) [2012] | (a) Inflated amount (RPI) [2024] | (b) Inflated amount (CPI) [2024] |
1 | £1,000 | £1,540 | £1,358 | £2,532 | £1,946 |
2 | £1,250 | £1,925 | £1,697 | £3,166 | £2,433 |
3 | £1,500 | £2,310 | £2,036 | £3,799 | £2,919 |
4 | £1,750 | £2,695 | £2,376 | £4,432 | £3,406 |
5 | £2,000 | £3,081 | £2,715 | £5,065 | £3,892 |
6 | £2,500 | £3,851 | £3,394 | £6,331 | £4,866 |
7 | £3,300 | £5,083 | £4,480 | £8,357 | £6,423 |
8 | £3,800 | £5,853 | £5,159 | £9,623 | £7,396 |
9 | £4,400 | £6,777 | £5,973 | £11,143 | £8,563 |
10 | £5,500 | £8,472 | £7,467 | £13,928 | £10,704 |
11 | £6,600 | £10,166 | £8,960 | £16,714 | £12,845 |
12 | £8,200 | £12,630 | £11,132 | £20,766 | £15,959 |
13 | £11,000 | £16,943 | £14,933 | £27,857 | £21,408 |
14 | £13,500 | £20,794 | £18,327 | £34,188 | £26,274 |
15 | £16,500 | £25,415 | £22,400 | £41,785 | £32,113 |
16 | £19,000 | £29,265 | £25,793 | £48,116 | £36,978 |
17 | £22,000 | £33,886 | £29,866 | £55,713 | £42,817 |
18 | £27,000 | £41,587 | £36,654 | £68,375 | £52,548 |
19 | £33,000 | £50,829 | £44,799 | £83,570 | £64,225 |
20 | £44,000 | £67,772 | £59,732 | £111,426 | £85,634 |
21 | £55,000 | £84,715 | £74,665 | £139,283 | £107,042 |
22 | £82,000 | £126,303 | £111,319 | £207,658 | £159,590 |
23 | £110,000 | £169,430 | £149,330 | £278,566 | £214,084 |
24 | £175,000 | £269,548 | £237,571 | £443,173 | £340,589 |
25 | £250,000 | £385,069 | £339,387 | £633,104 | £486,555 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the expenditure of her Department's criminal injuries hardship fund has been in each year since its creation.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The below table shows the compensation spend under the Hardship Fund in each financial year. It does not include the running costs of the Hardship Fund. The Hardship Fund opened on 27 November 2012.
Financial Year | Amount Paid |
2012/13 | £883.03 |
2013/14 | £1,116.05 |
2014/15 | £1,475.85 |
2015/16 | £312.68 |
2016/17 | £313 |
2017/18 | 0 |
2018/19 | 0 |
2019/20 | 0 |
2020/21 | 0 |
2021/22 | 0 |
2022/23 | 0 |
2023/24 | 0 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds have been raised through the victim surcharge in each year since its creation.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The surcharge (often referred to as the victim surcharge) was first introduced in April 2007 and changes were introduced on 1 October 2012, 1 September 2014, 8 April 2016, 28 June 2019, 14 April 2020 and then again on 16 June 2022.
When a court passes a sentence, it must also order that the relevant surcharge is paid. The amount of the surcharge depends on the sentence and whether at the time the offence was committed the offender was an adult or a youth (under 18 years of age), or if the offender is an organisation.
Revenue raised from the surcharge provides a contribution towards Ministry of Justice-funded victim and witness support services.
HMCTS accounts for the amount of victim surcharge imposed and collected in the annual HMCTS Trust Statement. The Trust Statement was introduced in 2010-11, prior to that the data was not collated centrally. The table below illustrates the amounts imposed and collected each year since April 2010. The amounts collected will include receipts for amounts imposed in prior years.
Financial Year | Victim Surcharge Imposed £000 | Victim Surcharge collected £000 |
2010-11 | 12,552 | 10,516 |
2011-12 | 11,234 | 10,165 |
2012-13 | 14,331 | 10,518 |
2013-14 | 30,970 | 19,548 |
2014-15 | 35,203 | 24,569 |
2015-16 | 37,866 | 28,307 |
2016-17 | 44,785 | 31,029 |
2017-18 | 46,603 | 35,022 |
2018-19 | 45,521 | 33,529 |
2019-20 | 44,424 | 39,689 |
2020-21 | 36,647 | 35,039 |
2021-22 | 46,654 | 37,852 |
2022-23 | 65,270 | 41,314 |
2023-24 | 104,032 | 65,496 |
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.