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Offenders: Fines

Answer

The total outstanding balance of financial impositions (regardless of year of imposition and excluding confiscation orders) at the end of September 2014 and at the end of September 2015 is published as part of the Criminal Court Statistics (Quarterly) publication which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015

The administrative costs of compliance and enforcement activity within HM Courts and Tribunals Service in the periods April to September 2014 and April to September 2015 were as follows:

Costs (£m)	2014-15	2015-16
Staffing costs	£19.88	£19.39
Non staffing costs	£3.24	£3.56
Total costs	£23.12	£22.95

The figures provided represent a ‘snapshot’ position at the end of September in each respective financial year. The staffing costs include permanent staff, Fixed Term Contract staff and Agency Staff. The Non-Staffing costs include Estate Costs (Utilities, Rent, Maintenance), IT, Telephony and other contracted service costs, Printing and Postage, Arrest Warrant Execution costs, and Travel & Subsistence costs.

It is not possible to identify or calculate the average amount owed per offender; offenders can have multiple financial imposition accounts recorded against them where they have been convicted of separate offences.

Calculating what the average administrative costs per offender were would incur disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

20059

Session

2015-16

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Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Fines Offenders Per capita costs

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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