Prisoners: Compensation

(asked on 5th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation claims for loss or damage to prisoners' property left in the custody of the Prison Service were made in the last year for which figures are available; and how much compensation was claimed in those cases.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 11th December 2014

Compensation payments to prisoners can be made through civil litigation, internal complaints, or as a result of recommendations made by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman and by the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

The National Offender Management Service does not record centrally the total number of compensation claims made for loss or damage to prisoners’ property or what the total requested amount was against these claims. To establish such details we would require an individual prison wide-survey to identify the number of individual claims and the amount of compensation requested against these claims made by each prisoner. This would be a significant exercise and could only be done at disproportionate cost.

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