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Dept of Social Security;Social Security Benefits Agency

Answer

Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what have been the 10 largest sums recovered by the compensation recovery unit in the current financial year; and if he will list the (a) illnesses, (b) accidents and (c) diseases suffered by those from whom compensation was recovered.[2906] Mr. Mitchell: This is a matter for Peter Mathison, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member with such information as is available. Letter from Peter Mathison to Mr. Tony Worthington, dated 5 December 1995: The Secretary of State for Social Security has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about what have been the 10 largest sums recovered by the Compensation Recovery Unit in the current financial year; and to list the (a) illnesses, (b) accidents and (c) diseases suffered by those from whom compensation was recovered. Claim form CRU 1 asks for the reasons for making a claim for compensation together with the date of any accident and details of the resulting injury, disease or if appropriate the date of death. Further details are not requested about the circumstances of individual accidents. For record purposes information is taken from the CRU 1 about the nature of the injury or disease and recorded in broad categories only. Details of illnesses, injuries and diseases can only therefore be provided within these categories. Appendix A which is attached contains information about the ten largest amounts recovered from individual customers by the Compensation Recovery Unit. I hope you find this reply helpful. Appendix A: The ten largest amounts recovered from individual customers by the Compensation Recovery Unit and a brief description of the injury or disease _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Amount recovered £ Brief description of injury/disease 70,522.25 Head/facial injury 67,165.00 Back/spinal injury 66,775.53 {1}Multiple injuries 64,704.06 Back/spinal injury 61,943.44 {2}Miscellaneous 59,142.57 {1}Multiple injuries 59,137.28 {1}Multiple injuries 59,131.70 {2}Miscellaneous 59,017.48 {3}Miscellaneous 57,773.28 Head/facial injury _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Multiple injury--more than one injury to different parts of the body or a combination of injury/amputation to the same part of body e.g. broken left arm and amputated right arm. {2} Miscellaneous--this includes lacerations/cuts/bruising or any combination where no specific part of the body is mentioned.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2906; 279 c258-9W;279 c252-3W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Compensation Social security benefits Compensation Recovery Unit

Contains statistics

Yes