Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what the expected timescales are for introducing legislation to amend the Damages Act 1996 with regard to how the discount rate is set.

On 30 November the Justice Select Committee published the report of its pre-legislative scrutiny inquiry into the draft legislation on the personal injury discount rate published by the Ministry of Justice on 7 September (Cmnd 9500).

The Government will respond to the Committee’s conclusions and other comments received on the draft legislation and set out its views on the way forward, including in relation to the introduction of legislation, within two months of the publication of the Committee’s report.