§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Attorney-General what information is held on, or estimate made of, the number of successful claims and the total and average amounts of compensation awarded by courts or settled out of court in respect of industrial injuries during each of the last 10 years, based on the date of the injury, both in cash terms and adjusted to take account of inflation.
§ The Attorney-GeneralInformation is not collected in the form requested.
Information on personal injury at work cases dealt with in the Queen's Bench division of the High Court has been collected on a sample basis for two months each year since 1986. The results of this exercise are as follows:
Personal injury at work cases dealt with in the Queen's Bench division in the two months sampled Number of claims Number awarded to plaintiff Amount awarded £ Amount awarded per case £ 1986 340 96 1,904,364 19,837 1987 424 161 4,353,809 27,042 1988 566 190 4,990,737 26,267 1989 629 153 5,984,239 39,113 1990 546 115 6,249,586 54,344