| Heading: |
Personal Injury: Compensation |
| Question ID: |
1789297 |
| UIN: |
41945 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5078 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Pippa Heylings
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| Asking Member handle: |
pippaheylings
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@pippaheylings
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of the compensation tariff for whiplash in line with inflation. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-02 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5204 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answer text: |
The Civil Liability Act 2018 allows the Lord Chancellor to set fixed compensation tariff amounts for whiplash injuries from road traffic accidents lasting two years or less. The tariff amounts were first set via the Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021, and t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |