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Home Office

Answer

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many compensation claims, and at what financial cost, have been made against (a) Sussex Police and (b) the Metropolitan Police in each year since 1999. [71103] Mr. John Denham: [holding answer 18 July 2002]: The Home Office does not collect this information centrally. Information is compiled by forces according to their own management needs and is not therefore directly comparable. Information provided by the forces is as follows: (a) Sussex Constabulary (i) Civil claims: public liability (wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and damage to property) and employer liability _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Civil Claims in Financial Years 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Claims closed 258 308 295 Dismissed 36 65 28 Not proceeded with 144 169 191 Settled 77 69 74 Judgement for claimant 1 5 2 Payments (£) 224,776 166,609 155,342 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (ii) Employment Tribunals _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Claims in Calendar Years 1999 2000 2001 Claims received 9 6 6 Dismissed 2 2 1 Withdrawn 3 1 3 Settled 4 3 2 Judgement for claimant 0 0 0 Payments (£) 0 29,000 22,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (b) Metropolitan Police Service (i) Employer liability and damage to property _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of Claims Numbers of Claims Amount Paid (£million) 1999-2000 2,800 3,600 7.0 2000-01 2,700 3,150 7.0 2001-02 2,450 2,900 10.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (ii) Civil actions and damages: the following tables relate to actions against the police by members of the public for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment etc. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Civil Actions received in financial years 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Actions 164 190 157 Threatened actions 633 503 439 Damages paid in financial years 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 No of Cases Cost (£k) No of Cases Cost (£k) No of Cases Cost (£k) Out of court settlements 413 3,703 220 2,318 129 1,261 Court awards 22 203 15 340 6 125 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (iii) Employment Tribunals _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Claims Settled 386,970 531,764 129,574 Tribunal Awards 14,652 363,085 0 Totals 401,622 894,849 129,574 Number of Cases with financial settlement Claims Settled 17 18 18 Tribunal Awards 2 2 0 Totals 19 20 18 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

389 c1468-9W;389 c1467-8W; 71103

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Complaints Disciplinary proceedings Compensation Expenditure Misconduct Police Metropolitan Police Sussex Police

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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