§ Mr. Ian McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the cost in each of the past five years of(a) sick pay and (b) compensation paid to employees of his Department or their families, or members of the public, as a result of (i) minor, (ii) major 15W and (iii) fatal injuries related to the work of his Department, detailing incidents involving information technology and those involving expenditure of more than £5,000. [33478]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe total cost of compensation paid by the Department of Environment, excluding its agencies, to employees, their families, or members of the public, as a result of injury was:
£ 1991–92 19,800 1992–93 11,412 1993–94 5,342 1994–95 21,940 1995–96 8,695 Total 67,189 The average annual cost was less than £13,500.
During this period there were no fatal injuries and none of the compensation payments related to incidents involving information technology. Two individual claims were settled at over £5,000: one in 1992, for £8,400, involving someone who had tripped over a loose piece of paving outside a Government building; the other, in 1993, for £5,360, to someone who had sustained injuries in an accident involving a lift in a Government building.
The amount of sick pay for injuries in the same period is not available.