§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the longest waiting time for any applicant to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to have waited for their case to be resolved and for an appeal to be decided.
§ Mr. John PattenThe board does not keep information about waiting times in cases now disposed of. The oldest application still outstanding was received on 22 March 1974, and was the subject of a hearing in 1978. The case concerns injury to a young child who is still a minor. It is kept under review and a number of interim payments have been made.
§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in the last five years were rejected because a battered wife did not inform the police of the assault;
3W(2) how many applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in each of the last five years relate to domestic violence; and what proportion were successful.
§ Mr. John PattenCollation by the board of information on applications arising from violence within the family was discontinued in 1985. The information given in the
Number of applications determined Year Awards made Applications rejected Withdrawn/abandoned Male Female Children Total 1984–85 39 188 12 239 151 87 1 1983–84 50 161 15 226 104 120 2 1982–83 46 114 5 165 95 67 3
§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications have been made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in each of the last five years; how many and what proportion of these were successful; how many of the unsuccessful ones appealed; and what proportion of appeals was successful.
Table 1 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 Number Per cent. Number per cent Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Applications received 31,939 — 34,890 — 39,697 — 42,301 — 43,054 — Total decisions accepted 25,963 — 23,636 — 26,299 — 25,236 — 24,175 — Breakdown of decisions accepted Full awards 18,618 61 17,089 61 19,906 64 19,147 64 18,186 63 Reduced awards 591 2 510 2 590 2 579 2 570 2 Nil awards 6,754 22 6,037 22 5,803 19 5,510 19 5,419 19 Requests for hearings 4,339 15 4,244 15 4,677 15 4,510 15 4,583 16 Total of decisions accepted and requests for hearings 30,302 100 27,880 100 30,976 100 29,746 100 28,758 100
Table 2 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 Decisions made at hearings Number per cent. Number per cent. Number per cent. Number per cent. Number per cent. Full awards 1,754 63 1,932 63 1,807 61 1,943 61 1,980 60 Reduced hearings 170 6 240 8 231 8 256 8 255 8 Nil awards 868 31 903 29 908 31 970 31 1,065 32 Total 2,792 3,075 2,946 3,169 3,300
§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the expenditure on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for each of the last five years, giving figures for the actual expenditure and in real terms
£ thousand Year Compensation expenditure Gross domestic product adjusted1 Administration expenditure Gross domestic product adjusted1 1987–88 52,000 52,000 6,760 6,760 1986–87 47,500 50,006 5,400 5,685 1985–86 41,497 45,144 4,340 4,721 1984–85 35,600 40,819 4,200 4,816 1983–84 33,000 39,752 3,835 4,620 1Cash figures adjusted to 1987–88 price levels by excluding the effect of general inflation as measured by the gross domestic product deflator at market prices.
§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of state for the Home Department what is the waiting time for an appeal to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; and how many people are waiting.
4Wfollowing table is taken from the board's annual reports for the years 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85. In these years, 10, 32 and 22 cases were rejected on the basis that the circumstances of the injury had not been reported without delay. It is not known how many of these applications were from wives.
§ Mr. John PattenThe following tables give the information which is kept by the board and published in its annual reports. Decisions made within the year concerned relate in many cases to applications made in previous years.
§ Mr. John PattenThe following figures include Scotland.
§ Mr. John PattenAt the end of February, 7, 783 cases were awaiting a hearing, the applicant being dissatisfied with the decision made by a single member after consideration of the papers. The following indication of the time taken by the board to reach a final decision in 5W 3,878 cases resolved in 1987–88 in which a hearing had been requested is taken from the board's latest annaul report (Cm 536). Intervals shown are from when a hearing was requested.
1987–88 Per cent. Up to 3 months 2 3 to 6 months 5 6 to 9 months 11 9 to 12 months 18 Over 12 months 64