Personal Injury: Compensation
Commons · Question 41945 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
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.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 2 Apr 2025
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...