Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average value of Compensation Orders issues in the last five years by offence type in the (i) Magistrates' and (ii) Crown Courts.

The number of compensation orders issued and the amount ordered to pay, broken down by offence type and court type over the last decade is in the public domain. The information can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017.

The relevant data tools are: Magistrates Court data tool; and Crown Court data tool.

• In the relevant data tool (Magistrates’ or Crown), select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Compensation – All’ row.

• For the average compensation, again select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Average Compensation (£)’ row.

• Similarly, you can observe the number of lowest value compensation orders (£0-£25) and highest value orders (£1000 +) in the rows below in the table.