Prisoners: Personal Property
(asked on 4th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of compensation claimed for loss or damage to prisoners' property held by the prison service in each of the last five years.
The total compensation payments made to prisoners for loss or damage to their property in respect of successful claims in the last five financial years are shown in the table below. The information held is in respect of public sector prisons in England and Wales and does not include private (contracted out) prisons.
Financial Years | Total value of successful payment claims |
2013-2014 | £152,914 |
2014-2015 | £313,347 |
2015-2016 | £190,191 |
2016-2017 | £199,086 |
2017-2018 | £220,053 |
To note within the table: |
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1. The figures have been drawn from our central recording system and although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected on occasions, may be subject to the inaccuracies in any large-scale recording system. | |
2. Some of the value of payments made will include an element of legal costs and the figures are subject to rounding. | |
We successfully defend two thirds of all litigation claims brought against us by prisoners. A programme of work is under way to prevent the causes of claims to allow us to better protect taxpayers’ money.