House of Lords written answer 10 May 2023
Response to Lord Hunt’s questions on coroner interactions and responsibilities to interested parties.
House of Lords written answer 27 April 2023
Responses to Lord Hunt’s questions regarding the role of the Chief Coroner
House of Lords written answer 9 November 2022
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on how many trials there were in 2021/2022 and how many were in the High Court and County Courts.
House of Lords written answer 27 October 2022
Response to Lord Hunt’s question as to how clinical negligence cases brought against the NHS in England were funded by type and year. This shows only 0.5% of cases are being funded by legal aid.
House of Lords written answer 10 October 2022
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on clinical negligence cases which settled in 2021/22 and the numbers which settled pre-issue, post-issue and at trial with or without the payment of damages.
House of Lords Health and Care Bill committee 4 February 2022
Comments made by Lord Hunt at the Health and Care Bill committee, day 8
House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Oral evidence: NHS litigation reform 11 January 2022
Jeremy Hunt MP’s comment on the proportion of NHS spend which is accounted for by legal fees (Jeremy Hunt £1.1bn) contrasted to NHS Resolution’s figure (£599.5 million).
House of Lords written answer 16 December 2021
Response to Lord Storey’s question on plans to reduce clinical negligence costs
House of Lords Grand Committee 2 December 2021
Lord Mackay’s short debate on liability costs to the National Health Service in England and how they could be reduced.
House of Commons
NHS clinical negligence spend last year. Two versions.
House of Lords oral questions 10 November 2021
Responses by Lord Kamall, on clinical negligence claims and costs reforms to questions from (among others) Lord Storey and Lord Hunt
House of Lords written answer 12 October 2021
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on the annual number of clinical negligence trials and success rates
House of Lords Written Answer 28 April 2021
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on clinical negligence case funding methods
House of Lords Written Answer 19 March 2021
Response to Lord Storey’s question on the NHS’s success rate on litigated cases
House of Lords Written Answer 8 March 2021
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to how many clinical negligence cases go to trial and the NHS success rate at trial
Clinical negligence – The cost and need for reform – MDU
MDU thoughts on reducing clinical negligence litigation costs
House of Lords written answer 9 February 2021
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on post-issue defendant success rates
House of Lords written answer 21 January 2021
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on litigated claims and NHS legal representation
House of Lords written answer 18 January 2021
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on the NHS Redress Act 2006
House of Lords Lord Hunt speech
Lord Hunt speech on clinical negligence costs, litigation and post-issue success rate
House of Lords 17 December 2020
Response to Lord Hunt question in relation to fixed costs for defendant law firms
House of Commons 11 December 2020
Response to David Lammy MP’s question on NHS Trust spend on legal representation for coroner’s inquests
House of Commons written 24 November 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on the introduction of fixed costs for lower value clinical negligence cases
House of Commons written answer 23 September 2020
Response to Jeremy Hunt’s question as to the cost of the NHS each year from medication errors
House of Lords written answer 20 August 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on NHS Resolution legal costs and whether they include NHS Resolution staff
House of Lords written answer clinical negligence figures Lord Hunt 8 August 2020
Lord Hunt’s question on NHS Resolution post-issue success rates
House of Commons written answer 2 June 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question as to the proportion and cost of NHS claims which relate to maternity (obstetrics) care
House of Lords written answer 18 May 2020
Response to Lord Blencathra’s question on any government plans to introduce an emergency cap on NHS Litigation
House of Commons written answer 24 March 2020
Response to Fiona Bruce MP’s question on NHS spend on claims for wrongful births
House of Lords 18 March 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question to ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to repeal section 2(4) of the Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948.
House of Lords oral question 3 March 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on “delay, deny, defend” in relation to NHS litigation.
House of Lords written answer 25 February 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on NHS Resolution’s post-issue success rates rate and why eighty percent of litigated cases result in damages being paid
House of Commons 11 February 2020
Response to Alex Sobel MP’s question in relation to overall NHS liabilities for clinical negligence claims
House of Lords 6 February 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on NHS Resolution defence success rates pre-issue, post-issue and at trial.
House of Commons 29 January 2020
Response to Sir Desmond Swayne MP’s question on plans to stop paying compensation in relation to NHS claims at a private cost level
House of Lords 27 January 2020
Response to Lord Alton of Liverpool’s question on clinical negligence claims by year and what plans the government has to reduce them
House of Commons written answer 9 January 2020
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on the number of high value obstetric cases each year
House of Lords written answer 4 November 2019
Response to Lord Storey’s question on NHS litigation costs
House of Lords written answer 30 October 2019
Response to Lord Hunt’s question on success rates by litigation stage
House of Commons written answer 31 October 2019
Response to Lord Storey’s question on NHS Resolution success rates at trial
House of Commons written answer 28 October 2019
Response to John Baron MP’s question on NHS effectiveness in selecting which cases to defend
House of Commons written answer 27 March 2019
Response to Jim Shannon MP’s question as to the potential cost of clinical negligence claims to the NHS over the next three years
House of Commons written answer 25 March 2019
Response to Jim Shannon MP’s question on whether the government intends to move away for a tortious system for NHS claims
House of Lords written answer 22 January 2019
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to data availability and format for NHS clinical negligence claims which are issued
House of Lords written answer 7 January 2019
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to how many clinical negligence
cases resolved in 2017–18 had proceedings issued because of issues in dispute, including (1) breach of duty, and (2) causation; and of such cases, how many resulted in a payment of damages to the claimant.
House of Lords written answer 20 December 2019
Response to Lord Storey’s question on NHS defence costs
House of Lords written answer 20 December 2018
Response to Lord Storey’s question on the planning or modelling to estimate the cost of clinical negligence claims in the period to 2020–21.
House of Lords written answer 19 December 2018
Response to Lord Storey’s question on what proportion of clinical negligence cases result in a legal action being (1) issued, and (2) decided by the courts; and, in the cases decided by a court, in what proportion the claimant fully, or partially,
succeeds.
House of Lords written answer 13 December 2018
Response to Lord Storey’s question whether the figures for the total government spend on clinical negligence in 2016–17 and 2018–19 include legal costs.
House of Commons written answer 28 November 2018
Response to Jim Shannon MP’s question as to how much has been disbursed by the NHS in relation to medical negligence claims in the last five years.
House of Commons written answer 22 October 2018
Response to John Baron MP’s question on how the NHS can improve its assessment of liability at an earlier stage
House of Lords written answer 25 June 2018
Response to Lord Turnberg’s question on clinical negligence costs over the last four years
House of Commons written answer 11 June 2018
Response to Chris Ruane MP’s question on the number of deaths attributable to clinical negligence
House of Commons written answer 21 May 2018
Response to John Baron MP’s question on post-issue success rates
House of Lords written answer 22 March 2018
Response to Lord Hunt’s question to ask in each of the past five years, what was the percentage of clinical negligence cases resolved after the issue of court proceedings (1) with damages paid, and (2) without damages paid; and in respect of each year, what were the legal costs paid in relation to those cases when damages were paid.
House of Commons written answer 5 March 2018
Response to John Baron MP’s question on post-issue success rates
House of Commons written answer 6 February 2018
Response to John Baron MP’s question on post-issue success rates
House of Commons written answer 30 January 2018
Response to John Baron MP’s question as to the hourly rates paid to NHS defence lawyers
House of Lords written answer 25 January 2018
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to the percentage of the NHS budget spent on clinical negligence
House of Lords written answer 24 January 2018
Response to Lord Sharkey’s question on defence success rates by stage
House of Lords written answer 21 December 2017
Response to Lord Colwyn’s question on whether the government intends to increase the small claims track threshold for clinical negligence cases in medical and dental practice
House of Lords written answer 20 December 2017
Response to Lord Sharkey’s question on NHS provisions for clinical negligence liabilities in future years
House of Lords written answer 20 December 2017
Response to Lord Sharkey’s question on claimant legal costs
House of Lords written answer 11 December 2017
Response to Lord Hunt’s question to ask what assessment they have made of the performance of the NHS Litigation Authority
Managing costs of clinical negligence
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report on NHS clinical negligence costs
House of Commons written answer 12 July 2017
Response to Dr Rosena Allin-Khan’s question on plans to reduce NHS clinical negligence costs
House of Commons 28 March 2017
Response to Tim Farron MP’s question as to the number of successful maternity claims
A Rapid Resolution and Redress Scheme for Severe Avoidable Birth Injury: a Consultation
Response to the consultation
House of Commons written answer 20 October 2016
Response to John Pugh MP’s question as to what proportion of contested cases have been successfully defended by the NHS Litigation
House of Commons written answer 21 July 2016
Response to Nusrat Ghani MP’s question as to what assessment has been made of the financial cost of incidences of human error within the NHS and what attempts are being made to reduce them
House of Commons written answer 20 July 2016
Response to Jim Shannon MP’s question as to the number of NHS clinical negligence claims
House of Lords written answer 7 July 2016
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to the number of clinical negligence cases over the last five years.
House of Lords written answer 14 June 2016
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to payments by Trusts into the central compensation fund managed by the NHS Litigation Authority
House of Commons written answer 10 May 2016
Response to Helen Jones MP’s question as to the costs to the NHS of the late release of medical records in litigation
House of Commons written answer 9 May 2016
Response to Helen Jones MP’s question as to how many claims the NHS settled within one week of the trial date and the associated costs
House of Commons written answer 12 March 2016
Response to Sir Edward Garnier MP’s question on “delay, deny, defend” behaviour by the NHS.
House of Lords written answer 13 January 2016
Response to Sir Edward Garnier MP’s question in relation to legal aid and fixed recoverable costs
House of Commons written answer 12 January 2016
Response to Andy Slaughter MP’s question on the impact of delaying the implementation of fixed recoverable costs as suggested in the LASPO Act
House of Lords written answer 11 January 2016
Response to Lord Storey’s question as to the historical annual cost of clinical negligence claims
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