Written question asked by Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 3 December 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 6 December 2018 (named day). It was answered by Rory Stewart (Conservative) on Thursday, 6 December 2018 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
Television Licences: Non-payment
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of custodial sentences given for non-payment of the BBC licence fee in each of the last three years.
- Answer
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The maximum penalty for television license fee evasion is a Level 3 fine, so a custodial sentence may not be imposed for this offence. In 2017 fines accounted for 99.5% of sentencing outcomes for television license fee evasion.
Where offenders fail to pay fines, the courts have a range of enforcement powers, including, in the last resort, imprisonment of the offender.
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 198197
- Session
- 2017-19
- Related items
- Subjects
- Non-payment Sentencing Unpaid fines Television licences
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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