NHS: Insurance

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme successfully claimed back by charging insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who were involved in road traffic accidents in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 8th September 2016

The table below is for Great Britain only since information regarding Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. Accurate and robust data can only be provided from 2012 due to system archiving in line with our departmental records management policy. Please note the breakdown of figures you have requested is derived from operational processes and systems. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. It may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.

Country

Financial Year

Data

ENGLAND

WALES

SCOTLAND

Total

2012 - 2013

Number of Cases

143,451

12,071

9,536

165,058

Amount Recovered

£135,898,125

£9,894,685

£9,872,118

£155,664,927

2013 - 2014

Number of Cases

131,196

10,807

9,042

151,045

Amount Recovered

£133,803,563

£9,312,992

£9,884,527

£153,001,081

2014 - 2015

Number of Cases

113,462

8,871

8,975

131,308

Amount Recovered

£121,074,583

£8,305,619

£9,816,385

£139,196,587

2015 - 2016

Number of Cases

104,785

8,079

8,628

121,492

Amount Recovered

£111,746,264

£7,549,742

£9,544,194

£128,840,200

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