Question follow-through · 88535
NHS: Negligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department have made of potential savings of the implementation of Fixed Recoverable Costs for clinical negligence claims valued up to (a) £25,000, (b) £100,000 and (c) £250,000.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department have made of potential savings of the implementation of Fixed Recoverable Costs for clinical negligence claims valued up to (a) £25,000, (b) £100,000 and (c) £250,000.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The rising costs of clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service in England are of great concern to the Government. Costs have more than doubled in the last 10 years and are forecast to continue rising, putting further pressure on NHS fi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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