HC Deb 27 October 1994 vol 248 cc805-6W
Mr. Hutton

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the total value of all benefits recovered from claimants awarded damages for personal injury claims in each year since 1979 expressed in constant 1994 prices.

Mr. Roger Evans

The compensation recovery scheme came into force on 3 September 1990. No records are held of the amounts of benefit recovered by compensators before that date because the Department was not involved in the process. The amounts recovered since 3 September 1990 in 1994–95 prices are as follows:

1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
4.35 27.96 54.55 84.36 47.50

Notes

  1. 1. All figures are in £ millions.
  2. 2. Figures exclude recoveries from awards that do not exceed £2,500. Compensators may exercise the right to offset such awards by half the value of benefits payable, but the Department is not involved in the process. Accordingly, no records are held of these recoveries.

Mr. Roger Evans

pursuant to his reply, 24 October, Official Report, column 425]: The figures for rent allowance and rent rebate caseload had been transposed.

The correct information is set out in the table.

3. Figures for 1994–95 are to 30 September 1994 only.