Katy Clark – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Katy Clark on 2014-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications were made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority’s Hardship Fund in 2013-14; and what proportion of such applications were successful.

Damian Green

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority received ten applications under the hardship fund in 2013-14, of which four were successful.

People who did not meet the fund’s earnings criteria lodged the six remaining applications. The fund is there to support low-paid workers and four of these six people earned too much to be eligible, while the other two lost no income as a result of the injuries they sustained.