Total claims received by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board

​​​Request ​810841952

For each year from 2015 to the present date, please provide: 

The total number of claims/applications received by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. 

A breakdown of claims by type of crime or injury category used by the Board (for example: assault, sexual offence, domestic violence, robbery, etc.). 

For each crime or injury category, please provide the number of claims that were: 

Approved 

Rejected 

For rejected claims, please provide the recorded reason for rejection, broken down by category. 

If possible, please provide the data in a table format (for example: year × crime category × outcome).

Response

1. Justice and Home Affairs do not hold the information in the format requested. Therelevant details are contained within individual case files and/or records that wouldrequire manual review and extraction to compile the breakdowns requested. The cost ofthis would exceed the permitted cost for Freedom of Information responses inaccordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey)Regulations 2014. Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive 

2. Number of applications received and number of cases resolved is published within theCriminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) Annual Reports which are available on theStates Assembly website using the links below. (covering 2015 to the present date, excl.2019). Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

States Assembly | CICB Annual Reports​ see specific year as below:

• States Assembly | R.20/2025
• States Assembly | R.24/2024
• States Assembly | R-69-2019​
  
  

Articles Applied

Article 16 

A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign,the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.

Article 23

Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise, than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.​