Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Written Statements

[The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Damian Green)]

My hon. and learned Friend, the Minister for Justice, Lord Faulks, has made the following written ministerial statement:

I am pleased to announce that, today, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority will become an Executive agency.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) was established in 1994. During 2012-13, a triennial review was carried out on CICA. The recommendation of the review was that CICA should become an Executive agency as this would better reflect its current operating model.

Today, the framework document which details the governance arrangements between the Department and the CICA agency has been published. In line with the requirements for all Executive agencies, the framework document sets out the overarching framework for the governance and accountability arrangements between the Department and the agency.

The creation of the CICA as an agency will not lead to any change in the CICA’s core function of paying money to people who have been physically or mentally injured because they were the blameless victim of a violent crime.

I have, today, placed copies of the framework document in the Libraries of both Houses and on the Department’s website at: www.justice.gov.uk.