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1692537

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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, how many people were sentenced to prison for non-payment of a TV licence in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	16081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for TV licence evasion, but may be committed to prison for wilfully refusing to pay the fine or culpably neglecting to pay. Imprisonment is only pursued as a matter of last resort.</p><p><br>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in 2019 and 2022 was two or fewer (the actual number has not been released in order to protect against personal identification). In 2020 and 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. The data for 2023 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 07/03/2024 12:57:00 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1690719

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
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, how many people have been prosecuted for non-payment of TV licence fees in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	15067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds information on prosecutions for non-payment of TV licence fees, covering the period requested. The latest data available, until year ending June 2023, can be obtained in the following published tool: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bd0675704282000d752143/outcomes-by-offence-june-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023</a>.</p><p>In the data tool, navigate to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab. In the ‘Offence’ filter, select ‘191A Television licence evasion’.</p><p>The pivot table will now present the number of prosecutions at all courts from year ending June 2011, including the requested last five years, from year ending June 2019 to year ending June 2023.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 29/02/2024 16:45:09 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1663922

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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, whether his Department holds data on the number of cases of Television Licence evasion that were considered by magistrates' courts in each year between 2015 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	201775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds data on the number of prosecutions for television licence evasion in magistrates’ courts, covering the period requested up to December 2022, and this can be viewed in the following data tool:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182044/magistrates-court-2022_v2.xlsx" target="_blank">Magistrates' court data tool: 2022</a>.</p><ul><li>Select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter.</li></ul> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2023 15:21:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1584681

registered interest
date	06/02/2023
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 was the estimated cost to the public purse of pursuing criminal charges against people for non payment of the TV license in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	140407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 14/02/2023 17:48:56 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1522951

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 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

1506665

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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, how many people were sent to prison for non-payment of the TV licence in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	51658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for non-payment of the TV licence fee as the maximum penalty is a fine.</p><p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in each of the last ten years can be viewed at the following link: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-15/37589" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-15/37589</a>.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 27/09/2022 14:09:25 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1489704

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
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, how many people were imprisoned for non-payment of a TV licence, by gender, in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	37589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales, by gender, between 1995 and 2018 can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-03-09/26808" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-03-09/26808</a></p><p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in 2019 was two or fewer (the actual number has not been released in order to protect against personal identification), none of whom were women.</p><p>In 2020 and 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><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. The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay and use a variety of means to ensure the recovery of criminal fines and financial penalties. Imprisonment is only pursued as a matter of last resort.</p><p>A person cannot receive an additional fine if they do not pay the initial fine for TV licence evasion.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 37590 question first answered 21/07/2022 15:46:35 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1489705

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
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, how many people have received a fine for failure to pay the initial fine for TV licence fee evasion by (a) gender and (b) region in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	37590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales, by gender, between 1995 and 2018 can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-03-09/26808" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-03-09/26808</a></p><p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in 2019 was two or fewer (the actual number has not been released in order to protect against personal identification), none of whom were women.</p><p>In 2020 and 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><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. The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay and use a variety of means to ensure the recovery of criminal fines and financial penalties. Imprisonment is only pursued as a matter of last resort.</p><p>A person cannot receive an additional fine if they do not pay the initial fine for TV licence evasion.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 37589 question first answered 21/07/2022 15:46:35 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1462944

registered interest
date	15/05/2022
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, how many people were prosecuted for non-payment of the TV licence, by gender, in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions for TV licence evasion, by gender, in England and Wales, up to December 2021, available in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804510/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence’ data tool</a>, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2021" target="_blank">Criminal justice system statistics quarterly: December 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>To view the number of prosecutions by gender for the non-payment of TV licences:</p><ul><li>Select the ‘prosecutions and convictions’ sheet in the excel document.</li><li>Filter for ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the <em>offence</em> filter.</li><li>To view male and female prosecutions, click anywhere in the table to bring up the pivot table field list and drag ‘sex’ into the rows field.</li></ul><p>The number of females prosecuted will be found on row 25 and the number of males prosecuted will be found on row 26.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 24/05/2022 09:27:46 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord