HC Deb 29 March 1979 vol 965 cc275-6W
28. Mr. Ashley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he proposes to make any changes in the criminal injuries compensation scheme.

Mr. John

As my right hon. Friend indicated in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Mr. Rodgers) on 19 March, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and my right hon. Friend have decided that the recommendations of the working party on the criminal injuries compensation scheme should be accepted, subject to some very minor modifications, and that a revised version of the scheme will be brought into effect as soon as the necessary administrative arrangements have been made.—[Vol. 964, c. 407–8.]