Court Orders: Compensation

(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation orders were issued for each offence type by (a) magistrate's courts and (b) crown courts in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 15th January 2019

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 accessible through this link 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.

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