Criminal Injuries Compensation
(asked on 19th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of applications for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority outside the two-year time limit for which discretion was applied in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022, (d) 2023, (e) 2024 and (f) 2025.
The table below shows the number and proportion of resolved applications in each calendar year where the two-year time limit was extended.
Column A: Calendar year of decision | Column B: Total resolved applications | Column C: Resolved applications received outside time limit | Column D: Resolved applications where time limit was extended | Column E: Resolved applications where time limit was extended as a proportion of all applications received outside the time limit |
2020 | 27,866 | 4,139 | 3,615 | 87.3% |
2021 | 28,471 | 5,223 | 4,391 | 84.1% |
2022 | 33,843 | 6,352 | 5,257 | 83.8% |
2023 | 36,783 | 6,846 | 5,279 | 77.1% |
2024 | 35,279 | 7,102 | 4,750 | 66.9% |
2025 to date | 14,207 | 3,235 | 1,971 | 60.9% |
The above information relates to applications made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 (the Scheme) only. For minor applicants, the two-year time limit depends on when the incident was reported to the police. We have taken that into account in the above response.