Personal Injury: Compensation
Work and Pensions
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) motor personal injury cases and (b) motor personal injury settlements were registered with his Department's Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) in each of the last 20 years; and how much was recovered from victims of motor personal injury cases by the CRU in that period.
Chris Grayling (Minister of State (Employment), Work and Pensions; Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
Due to system archiving the information available is limited to five years and is available in the table.
| Motor personal injury cases | |||
| Cases registered | Settlements recorded | Recoveries (£) | |
| 2010-11 | 790,999 | 659,671 | 41,072,611.98 |
| 2009-10 | 674,997 | 629,916 | 38,352,747.39 |
| 2008-09 | 625,072 | 546,147 | 37,868,936.09 |
| 2007-08 | 551,905 | 493,883 | 38,985,158.03 |
| 2006-07 | 518,821 | 469,642 | 39,566,754.71 |
| Source: Figures produced by the Compensation Recovery Unit. | |||