Injury awards for staff
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/009940/H
Version Date: 04/06/2026
The Alliance Finance Department and the Alliance People Department have provided the following information:
- Please provide the total number of police injury awards your force currently has in payment.
The most recent report from the pension provider, XPS, shows the number of injury awards being paid since 01/06/2006 is 152.
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.
See table below.
ii. A breakdown of the disablement bands of the new injury awards put into payment i.e. slight, moderate, substantial or severe.
|
Financial Year |
Band 1 |
Band 2 |
Band 3 |
Band 4 |
Band unknown |
Total Injury on Duties Commenced |
|
2020/21 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
2021/22 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
|
2022/23 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
2023/24 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
|
2024/25 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
|
2025/26 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
The above table reflects the current report which summarises the number of injury awards currently being paid.
iii. the total amounts paid in injury awards (not just the new awards put into payment in each year), including injury gratuity.
Payments against BA04 Injury Pension Payments
|
Year |
Amount (£'s) |
|
2020/21 |
1,489,308 |
|
2021/22 |
1,547,154 |
|
2022/23 |
1,697,046 |
|
2023/24 |
1,798,002 |
|
2024/25 |
1,998,518 |
|
2025/26 |
2,051,662 |
Clarification: 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."