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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 amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years, reaching a record high in 2013-14.<\/p>
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HMCTS are actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.<\/p>
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The total value of fines (a) issued by the courts and (b) collected in the financial year 2013-14 is set out below.<\/p>
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Financial Year<\/p><\/td> | Amount imposed<\/p><\/td> | Amount collected<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013-14<\/p><\/td> | £420,255,840<\/p><\/td> | £290,311,831<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The total amount collected in the financial year 2013-14 was a record high and was £5.8 million higher than the previous financial year.<\/p> <\/p> The amounts above include all elements of financial impositions (excluding confiscation orders): fines, costs, compensation and victim surcharge. The amounts collected in a particular year can relate to impositions from that year or any previous year. The amounts include those that were being paid by instalments or were not due for payment by the end of the year.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-04T16:15:47.5218098Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Fines"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value was of fines (a) issued by the courts and (b) collected was in financial year 2013-14.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/422", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Nottingham East"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Chris Leslie"} ], "uin" : "212720"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/47319", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/47319/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " <\/p> <\/p> The Ministry of Justice can provide spend for the provision of services with the top ten consultancy firms for 11 months of the last financial year (13/14) as March 2014 spend is not yet available. All spend is exclusive of VAT. The below table shows the top ten suppliers for consultancy for 2013/2014 and spend.<\/p> <\/p> Consultants can provide a fast, flexible and efficient way to obtain necessary skills that are not available inhouse. Consultancy spend is governed by strict Cabinet Office controls and any spend over £20k requires approval by the departmental board on behalf of the Secretaryof State.Consultancy contracts in excess of nine months require further approval by the Cabinet Office.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>
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