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Personal Injury: Compensation

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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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 27 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 2 Apr 2025
Answer: 2 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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2 Apr 2025
Answer published
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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