Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what monetary value her Department assigns to the Value of Preventing a Fatality calculation during the process of policy appraisal and evaluation.

In order to estimate the cost of a homicide, the Home Office uses the value of
a prevented fatality, which is estimated by the Department for Transport. The
Home Office first estimated the social and economic costs of crime in 2000:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/r
ds/pdfs/hors217.pdf. The Home Office last comprehensively updated the costs of
crime estimates in 2005:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http:/www.homeoffice.go
v.uk/rds/pdfs05/rdsolr3005.pdf.