Court Orders: Compensation

Justice written question – answered at on 15 January 2009.

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Photo of Edward Timpson Edward Timpson Conservative, Crewe and Nantwich

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice

(1) how many compensation orders have been issued to offenders in each of the last five years for which figures are available;

(2) what the average value of a compensation order was in each of the last five years for which figures are available;

(3) what the total monetary value of compensation orders issued by the courts was in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what percentage of this was collected by the courts and awarded to victims in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Photo of Bridget Prentice Bridget Prentice Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice

The available information shown in the following table shows the total number of compensation orders imposed, the average amount of those compensation orders and the total monetary value of those compensation orders in each of the last five years. Centrally held data do not cover the percentage of these orders that were subsequently collected.

Number of offenders ordered to pay compensation( 1) , average compensation amount and total sum of compensation orders imposed( 2) , 2003-07
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of offenders 120,465 123,315 131,687 137.446 165,372
Average compensation amount(3 )(£) 233 203 242 265 222
Sum of all compensation orders imposed (£) 34,091,595 25,032,945 31,868,254 36,423,190 36,323,584
(1) These data are not based on a primary disposal basis, a court can order to pay an offender to pay compensation alongside another, e.g. as well as receiving a community sentence an offender could be ordered to pay compensation to the victim. (2) Excludes summary motoring offences. (3) Rounded to the nearest £. Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice.

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