Please could you supply the answers to the following three questions relating to pothole compensation claims:
1. How much money overall has been paid out by Devon County Council in compensation as a result of claims (whether or not liability was accepted) relating to potholes involving (a) cyclists and (b) motorists in each of the last five financial years: 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18?
Please provide the responses for each year separately.
Please find our available information available below. We should clarify, though, that, for the purposes of this response and our responses to question 2 and 3, that Devon County Council does not hold separate data in relation to claims for cyclists and motorists. These totals therefore represent all claims made in relation to potholes.
2013-14 £96,700
2014-15 £114,499
2015-16 £32,518
2016-17 £19,547
2017-18 £30,547
2. How many individual (a) cyclists and (b) motorists have received compensation as a result of legal claims relating to potholes in each of the last five financial years: 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18?
Please provide the responses for each year separately.
2013-14 542
2014-15 482
2015-16 107
2016-17 85
2017-18 78
3. What is Devon County Council’s total expenditure on legal costs defending and settling legal claims, including both their own and the Claimants’ legal costs, for pothole related claims in each of the last five financial years: 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18?
Please provide the responses for each year separately.
2013-14 £94,264
2014-15 £146,797
2015-16 £188,385
2016-17 £36,933
2017-18 £105,258