Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is for (a) clinical negligence and (b) other claims against the National Health Service in England paid out by NHS Resolution in each year since the 2019-20 financial year, broken down by speciality.

NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England. The attached document, provided by NHSR, shows the total payments for clinical negligence and non-clinical negligence claims, broken down by year and primary speciality, between the financial years 2019/20 and 2023/24. For this question they have used their Supplementary Annual Statistics (SAS) dataset to ensure the data represents the most up to date information. Therefore, the response will not align with their published Annual Reports and Accounts (ARA). The main difference is that the SAS dataset will take into account the ‘periodical payment order’, payments paid after the date of settlement, whilst the ARA will not.