Police injury awards (FOI ref: 1104/26)
Request received 12 May 2026:
My request concerns injury awards.
- Please provide the total number of police injury awards your force currently has in payment.
- For each of the years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:
i. The number of new injury awards put into payment.
ii. A breakdown of the disablement bands of the new injury awards put into payment i.e. slight, moderate, substantial or severe.
iii. the total amounts paid in injury awards (not just the new awards put into payment in each year), including injury gratuity.
By 'injury awards', I mean those awards governed by The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.
"Police officer’s injury award
11.—(1) This regulation applies to a person who ceases or has ceased to be a member of a police force and is permanently disabled as a result of an injury received without his own default in the execution of his duty (in Schedule 3 referred to as the “relevant injury”).
(2) A person to whom this regulation applies shall be entitled to a gratuity and, in addition, to an injury pension, in both cases calculated in accordance with Schedule 3; but payment of an injury pension shall be subject to the provisions of paragraph 5 of that Schedule and, where the person concerned ceased to serve before becoming disabled, no payment shall be made on account of the pension in respect of any period before he became disabled."
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1. Please provide the total number of police injury awards your force currently has in payment.
2. For each of the years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:
i. The number of new injury awards put into payment.
ii. the total amounts paid in injury awards (not just the new awards put into payment in each year), including injury gratuity.
Please note that any located information might be subject to the application of exemptions under the Act.
Response
1. Please provide the total number of police injury awards your force currently has in payment.
395
2. For each of the years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:
i. The number of new injury awards put into payment.
2020/21 12
2021/22 5
2022/23 12
2023/24 11
2024/25 11
2025/26 21
ii. the total amounts paid in injury awards (not just the new awards put into payment in each year), including injury gratuity.
2020/21 3,599,718.50
2021/22 3,090,382.48
2022/23 3,682,415.42
2023/24 3,816,477.04
2024/25 4,644,747.26
2025/26 4,995,039.35