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Written question asked by Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 4 December 2025. It was answered by Zubir Ahmed (Labour) on Monday, 8 December 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


NHS Resolution

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the annual figures for payments made to each of NHS Resolution's panel law firms since the current legal framework came into effect in March 2022; and, in each case, what proportion of these payments were attributable to (a) medical negligence claims and (b) other claims.

Answer

NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England. The information to the question requested is not published by NHSR on its website. NHSR does publish annual statistics, however, which are available at the following link:

https://resolution.nhs.uk/resources/annual-statistics/

The second table in the document attached also shows the total spend for NHSR on NHS legal costs.

NHSR has also responded to individual enquiries under Freedom of Information for payments made to panel law firms, which can be found on its website at the following link:

https://resolution.nhs.uk/?s=FOI+Panel+firm+costs


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
96095
Session
2024-26
Attachment
Additional Document
Subjects
Legal costs Negligence NHS Resolution
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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