Miscarriages of Justice Compensation 195 Applications in Five Years Only 5 Successful

Mr Barry Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful applications for compensation following a conviction being quashed there were in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016 and (d) 2017; and what the average compensation award was for those claims in each of those years.

Dominic Raab: The table below, gives the number of applications received in the financial years 2013/14 to 2016/17 and the number received so far in the financial year 2017/18. The third column gives the number of applications made in a particular year that were awarded compensation, though the decision to award compensation may not have been made in the year in which the application was made.

2017/18 Applications Received 27, Successful Applications 0

2016/17 Applications Received 51, Successful Applications 1

2015/16 Applications Received 29, Successful Applications 2

2014/15 Applications Received 43, Successful Applications 1

2013/14 Applications Received 45, Successful Applications 1

The average award among the five successful applications was £73,629.68. It would be inappropriate to provide figures for awards by year because recipients would be potentially identifiable.

Source: Hansard Written Answers, 21/12/2017