Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value is of (a) awards under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme and (b) benefits recovered from payments made under that Scheme by the Compensation Recoveries Unit in the period from the commencement of that Scheme to 11 February 2015.

The information requested is not currently available. However, information from the commencement of the Scheme up to 31 January 2015 is available and is provided below.

a) The gross value of awards under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme between April 2014 and the end of January 2015 is approximately £24,700,000¹.

b) The value of benefits recovered from gross payments made under the Scheme by the Compensation Recovery Unit for the same period is approximately £5,300,000¹.

Notes:

¹ Figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000.