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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were imprisoned for failure to pay a court fine in each year since 1971. - Inc table.

Asked by

Hilary Benn (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

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Tabled on

24 April 2001

For answer on

1 May 2001

Answered on

1 May 2001

Mr. Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were imprisoned for failure to pay a court fine in each year since 1971. [159254] Mr. Charles Clarke: Information relating to people imprisoned for failure to pay a court fine since 1971 is given in the table. Provisional information for 1 January to 31 March 2001 shows that there have been 491 fine defaulters received into prison so far and that on 31 March 2001 there were 41 fine defaulters in prison. Number of fine defaulters received into prisons in England and Wales 1971 to 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Number of receptions 1971 10,871 1972 10,980 1973 10,406 1974 12,622 1975 14,417 1976 15,911 1977 16,040 1978 16,442 1979 17,044 1980 15,938 1981 21,153 1982 24,492 1983 23,241 1984 21,761 1985 20,493 1986 19,159 1987 18,723 1988 16,817 1989 16,985 1990 16,659 1991 18,973 1992 19,826 1993 22,403 1994 22,469 1995 20,157 1996 8,555 1997 6,336 1998 5,374 1999 3,727 2000 {1}2,314 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Provisional data only

Date

1 May 2001

Reference

159254; 367 c618W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What measures he is taking to strengthen public confidence in non-custodial sentences. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Colin Pickthall (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

26 February 2001

For answer on

12 March 2001

Answered on

12 March 2001

Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures he is taking to strengthen public confidence in non-custodial sentences. [151732] Mr. Boateng: It is vital that both the public and sentencers have confidence in non-custodial penalties. The following measures have been taken to achieve this aim: we have made it clear to the Probation Service that it must raise its performance on enforcement of community sentences. Independent enforcement audits on cases commenced early and late in 1999 showed that the correct enforcement of breach procedures for community sentences improved significantly from 44 per cent. to 62 per cent. of cases being dealt with properly. This is welcome but there is still a long way to go. A third national audit is being conducted to keep up the pressure for further improvement; in April 2000, new national standards were introduced that tightened the standards for enforcement of community sentences so that offenders are returned to court no later than after second unacceptable failure to comply rather than, as previously, the third such failure; new enforcement measures contained in section 53 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 provide that where the court finds an offender in breach of his community order and takes the view that he is unlikely to go on successfully to complete the order it must impose a custodial penalty, other than in exceptional circumstances; we are developing a range of high-quality offending behaviour programmes in the community, and we have set up a new process of accreditation, involving an independent panel of experts to ensure that only the most effective and cost-effective, evidence-based programmes are rolled out across the country; from April, responsibility for the execution of warrants, including fine warrants, will pass from the police to magistrates courts. This will provide a clearer focus than the present arrangements and deliver better enforcement; we are conducting a study under the crime reduction programme to identify best practice for fine enforcement. At present, various strategies are being piloted in a number of courts, and the results will be assessed later this year; from April, measures in the Access to Justice Act 1999 will be implemented enabling, under certain circumstances, the Department of Social Security to provide the court with up to date address details of fine defaulters. This should reduce the number of fines that are currently written off; more generally, the new national standards require local probation areas to ensure that they have a strategy to inform both sentencers and the general public about their work and the services they perform; and last year we made a grant to an organisation called Payback in connection with the promotion of community sentences.

Date

12 March 2001

Reference

364 c491-2W; 151732

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many repossessions by building societies and other providers of mortgages there were in each of the last 10 years. - Table given.

Asked by

Gerry Steinberg (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 February 2001

For answer on

5 March 2001

Answered on

5 March 2001

Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many repossessions by building societies and other providers of mortgages there were in each of the last 10 years. [152005] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information, as set out in a Council of Mortgage Lenders press release of 31 January 2001, is as follows: Property repossessions from 1991 to 2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Period Number of properties taken into possession 1991 75,540 1992 68,540 1993 58,540 1994 49,210 1995 49,410 1996 42,560 1997 32,770 1998 33,820 1999 30,030 2000 22,610 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders

Date

5 March 2001

Reference

152005; 364 c94W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases sanctions available to the courts in the event that a person convicted of a criminal offence fails to pay a fine were used in each of the last five years broken down by sanction; and if...

Asked by

David Lidington (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 December 2000

For answer on

18 December 2000

Answered on

18 December 2000

Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases sanctions available to the courts in the event that a person convicted of a criminal offence fails to pay a fine were used in each of the last five years broken down by sanction; and if he will make a statement. [143004] Mr. Charles Clarke: [holding answer 15 December, 2000]: Apart from information about the number of people imprisoned for fine default, the information requested is not available centrally. The most recent available figures for imprisonment are given in the table. Receptions of adult fine defaulters into prison in England and Wales _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Male Female 1995 18,787 1,370 1996 8,094 461 1997 5,964 372 1998 5,048 326 1999 3,512 215 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Prison Statistics for England and Wales, 1999, table 1.14 Trials of provisions in the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 made additional disposals available to a small number of courts for a limited period to deal with fine defaulters who would otherwise have gone to prison. The use made of those disposals by the courts was published in the report of the trials, "New measures for fine defaulters, persistent petty offenders and others", in February 2000. A decision has not yet been taken about making these disposals available nationally.

Legislation

Crime (Sentences) Act 1997

Date

18 December 2000

Reference

360 c63-4W; 143004

House

House of Commons

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