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<p><del class="ministerial">The following surety monies have been collected when defendants
breached their bail conditions and a surety had been given before bail was granted:</del></p><p>
</p><p><del class="ministerial">1 April 2013 - 31 March 2014: £247,834.46</del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013: £739,192.35</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">1
April 2011 – 31 March 2012: £433,398.54</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The
value of bail monies forfeited in 2013-14 is lower than the value of forfeitures in
2012-13 due to a lower number of bail terms being breached.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins
class="ministerial">The following surety monies have been collected when defendants
breached their bail conditions and a surety had been given before bail was granted:</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">1 April 2013 - 31 March 2014: £14,251.10</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">1
April 2012 – 31 March 2013: £16,952.50</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">1 April
2011 – 31 March 2012: £57,771.86</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">A surety is
a promise (by a third party) to pay a sum of money should a defendant fail to surrender
to the court when ordered to do so. Where a bail surety is agreed as a condition of
bail and the defendant subsequently fails to attend, the court can make an order to
forfeit all or part of these sums. Unpaid sureties are subject to enforcement action
in the same way as unpaid fines.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The value of
sureties collected in 2011-12 was particularly high due to a higher than usual number
of defendants failing to surrender to the court when ordered to do so following the
period of civil unrest in August 2011.</ins></p>
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