Prisoners: Compensation
(asked on 14th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation claims were won by prisoners for loss or damage to their property held by the prison service in each of the last five years.
The information requested for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years can be found in the table below. This is in respect of litigation claims made against public sector prisons in England and Wales and does not include contracted out establishments.
The information requested for the period prior to 2016/17 is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Number of successful litigation claims by prisoners for loss or damage to property 2016-17 and 2017-18 - Public Sector Prisons, England and Wales | |||||||||
Financial Year | Number of successful claims | ||||||||
2016/17 | 77 | ||||||||
2017/18 | 60 | ||||||||
Note: | |||||||||
Successful litigation claims are defined as those which were won by the prisoner and those in which HMPPS (and previously NOMS) agreed to settle. | |||||||||