{"value":{"id":1743353,"memberId":3154,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice","uin":"HLWS239","dateMade":"2024-11-21T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","title":"Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021: Publication of the Lord Chancellor’s Review","text":"<p>My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP) has today made the following statement:</p><p>“I would like to announce that I have completed my report of the first statutory review of the Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021 (the Regulations).</p><p>Part 1, Section 3 of the Civil Liability Act provides for the Lord Chancellor to set a tariff of damages for whiplash injuries of up to two years in duration and to make regulations to do so. Section 4 of the Act requires the Lord Chancellor to review regulations made under Section 3 within three years of implementation.</p><p>In summary I have decided to:</p><ul><li>maintain the existing split structure of the tariff (whiplash only and whiplash plus minor psychological injury) and to provide additional guidance on defining minor psychological injury;</li><li>uprate the tariff by around 15% to account for actual Consumer Price Index inflation to May 2024 and for forecasted inflation to May 2027 - the likely date of the next review;</li><li>keep the allowable judicial uplift for exceptional injuries or circumstances at its current level of up to 20% of the tariff award; and</li><li>make no changes to the definitions on what constitutes appropriate medical evidence and who may provide it for the purposes of the ban on seeking/making an offer to settle a whiplash claim without evidence.</li></ul><p>As per the requirements of the Act, I will today Lay a report with more information on the review, its conclusions and the next steps in the House libraries. I will also shortly commence a consultation on these decisions with the Lady Chief Justice and will provide further information on the implementation timetable in due course.”</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1743353","method":"GET"}]}