HC Deb 13 July 1993 vol 228 cc426-7W
Mr. Robert Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral answer of the Attorney-General to the hon. Member for Coventry, North-West (Mr. Robinson) of 10 November 1992,Official Report, columns 746–47, in how many cases ex-gratia payments have been made by the Government to people who claim to have suffered losses as a result of a prosecution which subsequently failed or was withdrawn.

Mr. Maclean

None, in the particular categories specified by the hon. Member.