Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in each of the last five years, what was (1) the total provision made by NHS Resolution, and its predecessor bodies, against claims for clinical negligence, and (2) the total amount paid out in the settlement of claims for clinical negligence, broken down by legal costs and awards to claimants.

NHS Resolution has provided the following information.

The total provision made by NHS Resolution and its predecessor bodies against claims for clinical negligence and the total amount paid out in the settlement of claims for clinical negligence, broken down by legal costs and awards to claimants is shown in the attached tables due to the size of the data.