Edward Garnier – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Edward Garnier on 2016-01-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of whether there is a causal link or correlation between the value and costs of a clinical negligence claim and its factual and legal complexity.

Ben Gummer

The Department is currently preparing to go out to public consultation on the introduction of fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence claims as originally proposed by Lord Woolf and Lord Justice Jackson in 1996 and 2009 respectively.

Respondents to the pre-consultation exercise in August confirmed that there is no exact correlation between value and complexity of clinical negligence claims.