Criminal Injuries Compensation
(asked on 9th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of successful applications made for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme took longer than 12 months to process in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the number and proportion of applications for compensation received in each year since 2010-11 in which a decision to award compensation was made (i.e. were successful) at first decision, review or appeal and took longer than 12 months to process.
Where an application is appealed, the timeframes for listing and deciding the appeal are determined by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service and are out with the control of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Period | Number of successful applications which took longer than 12 months to process | Proportion of all successful applications |
2010-11 | 8,765 | 26.5% |
2011-12 | 9,633 | 29.9% |
2012-13 | 10,357 | 39.9% |
2013-14 | 6,902 | 47.1% |
2014-15 | 7,408 | 51.3% |
2015-16 | 8,322 | 62.7% |
2016-17 | 5,321 | 41.4% |
2017-18 | 1,705 | 13.5% |