Criminal Injuries Compensation

(asked on 29th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of claims under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme were rejected as a result of the injury not qualifying for compensation in each year since 2010-11.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 2nd May 2019

This information is shown in the table below.

The first column shows the number of resolved cases in which an award was refused because the injury did not qualify for an award. As more than one reason for refusal may be provided in any case, the figures below may include cases which were also refused on other grounds.

The second column expresses this number as a proportion of all cases resolved per year.

Financial Year

1. Number

2. Proportion

2010/11

8862

14%

2011/12

7839

14%

2012/13

7406

14%

2013/14

8444

20%

2014/15

7584

21%

2015/16

5451

19%

2016/17

4282

13%

2017/18

6630

16%

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