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Fines: Surcharges

Answer

The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.

Victim Surcharge
	Victim surcharge imposed	Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition	Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) 1	Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition	Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date 2	Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3	Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3	Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date
2010/11	Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4					£501,887	£473,116	£7,219,000
2011/12	£12,199,956	£6,810,532	£645,381	£4,744,043	£10,281,567	£1,355,514	£1,163,017	£10,121,000
2012/13	£15,508,307	£7,607,886	£888,027	£7,012,395	£10,517,641	£1,605,519	£1,384,779	£12,084,000
2013/14	£33,726,535	£15,343,460	£2,265,389	£16,117,686	£19,548,368	£2,395,662	£2,937,982	£21,110,000
2014/15	£38,631,424	£17,302,260	£2,350,532	£18,978,631	£24,569,735	£2,362,914	£3,711,748	£29,381,000

The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.

It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.

Data notes:

1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.

2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.

3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.

4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

19287

Session

2015-16

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Fines Victims Surcharges

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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