Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 13 November 2012.

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Photo of Rosie Cooper Rosie Cooper Labour, West Lancashire 11:30, 13 November 2012

In the consultation on the cuts to the criminal injuries compensation scheme, the Ministry of Justice promised to protect payments to the most vulnerable and seriously injured victims of crime. Why, then, will the most severe cuts affecting compensation for loss of earnings fall on more than 1,000 of the most seriously injured victims of crime and on the dependants of murder victims? Have not the innocent victims of crime suffered enough?