Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the quality of the evidence presented by the Association of British Insurers on the continuing increases to motor insurance premiums being a result of fraudulent personal injury claims; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The Government is concerned about the incidence of fraudulent personal injury claims and the costs that they cause. The Insurance Fraud Taskforce is considering the evidence from a range of stakeholders, including the ABI, as part of its remit to make recommendations to tackle insurance fraud more generally. |
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were kept in solitary confinement at (a) HMP Lincoln and (b) nationally in each month of each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
In instances where prisoners are removed from normal location they are not left in isolation for extended periods of time and are never, therefore, held in conditions of solitary confinement.
Prisoners may, be held in segregation for reasons of good order and discipline or for their own protection. They may also be segregated to await adjudication or as a punishment of cellular confinement for offences against prison discipline. Prisoners are only segregated where it is proportionate to the risk posed by or to the prisoner in question and where there are no practical alternatives. Segregation is only in circumstances that are lawful, safe and decent.
Figures for the number of prisoners held in segregation during the period specified are not recorded centrally and could only be provided by collating the relevant information from records held at (a) Lincoln prison and (b) all prisons. In either case this could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the Supreme Court's judgment in Summers v Fairclough Homes that exaggerated or fabricated personal injury claims might be struck out in exceptional circumstances; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The Government is committed to reducing the number of fraudulent personal injury claims. To this end, we are considering what specific reforms might be appropriate.
As announced last year, we are working with stakeholders in the industry to tighten the medical evidence process so that only evidence from accredited experts can be considered, and the costs for those reports can be fixed. This will mean people can no longer profit from exaggerated or fraudulent compensation claims but victims with genuine cases can still get the help they deserve. We are introducing these reforms later in the year. We are also working to secure better data on motor accident cases, including the number of fraudulent cases.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evidence submitted by his Department to the independent review of the RSCPA's prosecutions activity being carried out by Mr Stephen Wooler.
Answered by Damian Green
The Ministry of Justice has not submitted evidence to Mr Stephen Wooler's independent review of private prosecutions by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, nor have we received a request to do so.