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Dept for Constitutional Affairs

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Mr. Byers: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what amounts of fines were (a) due to be paid and (b) collected in each magistrates' court in the most recent year for which information is available. [136532] Mr. Leslie: Magistrates' Courts Committees (MCCs) have a responsibility for the collection of a range of debts imposed by both the magistrates' courts and the Crown Court. Debt collected includes not only fines but also fees, compensation, confiscation orders, legal aid contributions and some maintenance orders. It is not yet possible to separate out only fines from the total so the figures provided in the table include all the elements above. Data are collected centrally at a MCC level, rather than at court level. Debt Analysis--Financial Year April 2002--March 2003 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Including Confiscation Orders Excluding Confiscation Orders Amount Owed Total Amount Collected Total Amount Owed Total Amount Collected Total including Confiscation Including Confiscation Excluding Confiscation Excluding Confiscation Orders Orders orders Orders Avon and Somerset 8,181,788 5,259,280 8,037,845 5,201,617 Bedfordshire 3,480,794 2,025,001 3,369,920 1,990,976 Cambridgeshire 7,212,583 3,238,169 4,823,762 3,235,925 Cheshire 6,343,975 3,528,927 5,937,986 3,517,973 Cleveland 4,216,677 1,975,152 3,988,362 1,975,152 Cumbria 3,731,662 2,775,099 3,664,593 2,774,655 Derbyshire 8,019,991 4,686,960 7,701,784 4,375,281 Devon and Cornwall 8,789,409 5,532,765 8,611,511 5,427,765 Dorset 3,129,353 2,389,428 2,937,889 2,254,069 Durham 3,810,252 2,824,406 3,724,459 2,804,406 Dyfed Powys 2,998,274 1,960,800 2,985,359 1,955,054 Essex 11,051,684 8,218,465 10,823,161 8,187,035 Gloucestershire 2,810,188 2,354,218 2,778,482 2,285,011 Greater London 111,347,014 44,495,021 78,359,500 40,008,859 Greater Manchester 23,784,474 15,219,139 23,637,845 15,114,771 Gwent 5,112,864 2,928,599 5,078,825 2,927,407 Hampshire and IoW 9,564,623 7,373,651 9,559,305 7,130,126 Hertfordshire 6,601,848 4,435,570 6,465,770 4,051,933 Humberside 5,435,985 3,624,952 5,230,916 3,510,212 Kent 9,434,951 5,730,421 9,433,926 5,279,995 Lancashire 11,325,845 7,126,465 10,315,616 6,979,413 Leicestershire 6,860,746 4,714,845 6,856,679 4,712,644 Lincolnshire 5,112,202 3,022,844 4,357,890 2,877,555 Merseyside 13,398,088 4,377,442 11,211,568 4,257,610 Norfolk 3,788,526 2,844,567 3,564,228 2,631,267 North Wales 5,413,000 2,887,586 5,329,765 2,828,407 North Yorkshire 3,204,012 2,485,638 3,173,526 2,367,756 Northamptonshire 5,444,863 3,447,419 5,243,809 3,367,406 Northumbria 8,823,707 5,231,567 8,813,707 5,231,567 Nottinghamshire 6,901,699 4,503,754 6,306,446 4,186,059 South Wales 9,536,317 4,936,250 9,496,396 4,902,869 South Yorkshire 8,461,741 5,127,542 7,395,710 5,070,458 Staffordshire 7,974,944 4,533,341 7,095,831 4,320,887 Suffolk 3,405,285 2,366,200 3,226,536 2,330,078 Surrey 5,427,711 4,414,523 5,379,103 4,349,531 Sussex 6,402,558 3,958,078 6,402,558 3,958,078 Thames Valley 12,245,768 8,450,928 12,066,998 8,450,928 Warwickshire 3,015,942 2,612,689 2,906,417 2,578,005 West Mercia 6,807,395 4,845,635 6,666,562 4,843,985 West Midlands 23,774,188 11,759,135 20,876,615 11,749,870 West Yorkshire 18,252,877 8,550,736 12,641,471 8,514,510 Wiltshire 5,228,069 3,546,903 4,831,198 3,353,379 England and Wales 425,863,872 236,320,110 371,309,829 227,870,484 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

136532; 412 c598-600W;412 c605W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Crown Court Enforcement Fines Magistrates' courts Magistrates' courts committees

Contains statistics

Yes

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