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	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the amount of money that magistrates’ courts in England and Wales imposed in fines for non-payment of the TV licence fee, from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	63957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes figures on the number of people fined for non-payment of a TV licence, broken down by fine amounts, on an annual basis on the GOV.UK website. These figures were most recently updated in May 2022, in the ‘Sentencing Outcomes’ worksheet in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076465/magistrates-court-tool-2021.xlsx" target="_blank">Magistrates' court data tool (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 17.1 MB)</a> as part of the Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2021 publication. The number of people fined for this offence can be found by filtering for HO Offence Code ‘19101 – Television licence evasion’ and breaking this down by fine amount. These figures can also be broken down by various demographics such as age and gender. The average fine amount is available on the ‘Average Amounts’ worksheet.</p><p>The penalty for TV licence evasion is a fine. A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for TV licence evasion but can be committed to prison for wilfully refusing to pay the fine or culpably neglecting to pay. In 2021, there were no admissions into prison associated with failing to pay a fine in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63958 question first answered 25/10/2022 15:19:28 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1522952

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) people and (b) women given custodial sentences for the non-payment of a magistrates’ court fine arising from a conviction for evasion of payment of TV licence fees in 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	63958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes figures on the number of people fined for non-payment of a TV licence, broken down by fine amounts, on an annual basis on the GOV.UK website. These figures were most recently updated in May 2022, in the ‘Sentencing Outcomes’ worksheet in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076465/magistrates-court-tool-2021.xlsx" target="_blank">Magistrates' court data tool (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 17.1 MB)</a> as part of the Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2021 publication. The number of people fined for this offence can be found by filtering for HO Offence Code ‘19101 – Television licence evasion’ and breaking this down by fine amount. These figures can also be broken down by various demographics such as age and gender. The average fine amount is available on the ‘Average Amounts’ worksheet.</p><p>The penalty for TV licence evasion is a fine. A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for TV licence evasion but can be committed to prison for wilfully refusing to pay the fine or culpably neglecting to pay. In 2021, there were no admissions into prison associated with failing to pay a fine in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63957 question first answered 25/10/2022 15:19:28 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman