Low Flying: Compensation
(asked on 19th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much compensation his Department has paid as a result of low flying incidents in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 27th January 2017
Compensation paid by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as a result of low flying incidents in each of the last five years is:
2012 - £616,074.90
2013 - £785,565.37
2014 - £491,556.95
2015 - £180,462.50
2016 - £275.469.68
As a comparison compensation paid by the MOD under the then Labour Government were:
2006 - £1,288,815.99
2007 - £2,014,163.33
2008 - £860,544.54
2009 - £529,889.33