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min answer › date of answer	2019-05-17
answer › date of answer	2019-06-18
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have received a custodial sentence for failure to pay the television license fee in the last five years.

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is ministerial correction

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1132022

registered interest

date

13/06/2019

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Ministry of Justice

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Justice

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Justice

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Television Licences: Non-payment

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25259

	pref label	House of Commons

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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have received a custodial sentence for failure to pay the television license fee in the last five years.

tabling member constituency

Coventry South

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Mr Jim Cunningham

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264316

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

18/06/2019

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<p>Failure to pay television licence fees is not an imprisonable offence. However, courts have power to commit to prison for failure to pay criminal fines, which can be imposed for non-payment of television licence fees.</p><p>The number of committals to prison imposed in the last five years for failure to pay fines imposed for non-payment of the BBC licence fee can be viewed in the table.</p>

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South Swindon

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Robert Buckland

question first answered

18/06/2019 16:53:07

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4106

	label	Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

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1

	file name	PQ 264316_final.xlsx
	title	Table

tabling member

308

	label	Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham