Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost to the NHS of litigated clinical negligence claims in each of the last four years for which figures are available.

NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England.

The figures provided do not include claims brought against general practitioners, who are covered by separate indemnity arrangements through medical defence organisations and for which data is not centrally available.

NHS Resolution has provided the following information:

Payments made on litigated clinical claims closed from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2017 (as at the end of each respective closure year) are shown in the attached table due to the size of the data.

NHS Resolution has advised that figures exclude payments for Periodical Payment Orders.