Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-02-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid out in compensation to (a) internal and (b) external claimants in each year since 2010.

Karen Bradley

This information is not available, except at disproportionate cost.

The Home Office records all Special Payments (of which compensation is a type). However, we are not required to report whether the recipient is internal or external to the Department.

It is therefore not possible, from the data we have, to provide a compensation figure that separates out internal and external claimants.

Page 154 of the Home Office’s 2014/15 Annual Report and Accounts has a table that lists the total value and number of all Special Payments