HC Deb 17 June 1998 vol 314 c222W
Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was paid out by the English police forces in compensation cases in the last year for which figures are available. [46015]

Mr. Michael

Payment of compensation by police forces, which is provided for in section 88 of the Police Act 1996, is a matter for individual police forces, and information about amounts paid out by individual forces is not held centrally.