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<p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very
seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid
and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase
in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years. The
amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14
and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial
impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows
the value of financial impositions outstanding as at the end of the financial years
(a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.</p><p> </p><p>For the financial
years 2011-12 and 2012-13, the first column of figures represents the outstanding
balance of the impositions made during the 2013-14 financial year and the second shows
the total value outstanding regardless of imposition date. The ‘in year outstanding
value’ is included within the total outstanding value figure. The figures cannot be
presented in this manner prior to 2011-12.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘value outstanding’ figures
includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified
(either because they were imposed close to the end of the year or because they had
payment timescales set by the courts for beyond the end of the financial year) and
those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. These figures include
fines, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and prosecution costs orders.</p>
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