Criminal Injuries Compensation

(asked on 10th February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the expenditure of her Department's criminal injuries hardship fund has been in each year since its creation.


Answered by
Alex Davies-Jones Portrait
Alex Davies-Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 13th February 2025

The below table shows the compensation spend under the Hardship Fund in each financial year. It does not include the running costs of the Hardship Fund. The Hardship Fund opened on 27 November 2012.

Financial Year

Amount Paid

2012/13

£883.03

2013/14

£1,116.05

2014/15

£1,475.85

2015/16

£312.68

2016/17

£313

2017/18

0

2018/19

0

2019/20

0

2020/21

0

2021/22

0

2022/23

0

2023/24

0

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