Opiate Dependent Litigation Scheme
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Philip Davies (Shipley, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much compensation has been paid out under the Opiate Dependent Litigation Scheme in the latest period for which figures are available.
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Crispin Blunt (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Prisons and Probation), Justice; Reigate, Conservative)
In 2006 the Prison Service settled 197 claims from prisoners who claimed that their drug detoxification treatment was inadequate. The claims concerned medical practice in prisons dating back to the late 1990s. Legal advice was that the standard of care they received fell short of acceptable medical standards and the Prison Service's guidelines for dealing with opiate dependent prisoners. On the basis of strong legal advice it was decided to settle these cases out of court in order to minimise costs to the taxpayer. If the claims had proceeded to trial they would have resulted in considerably more expense to the public purse. Each case was settled for £3,807.10 (a total of £749,998.7).
Following the payment of compensation the claimants' legal costs were settled for a total of £696,198.
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