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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds annual data on the rates of committal proceedings, committal orders and days spent in prison with regard to unpaid Council Tax for the period of 2018-2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds annual data on the rates of committal proceedings, committal orders and days spent in prison with regard to unpaid Council Tax for the period of 2018-2021.
The department does not hold information on how many proceedings have been started.
Data on the number of committals to prison for Council Tax non-payment since 2018 can be found in the attached table.
On average (mean) civil prisoners received into custody for non-payment of Council Tax from 2018-2020 spent 25 days in custody.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales against women for default of payment of fines (a) in total and (b) in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of (i) a TV licence fee fine and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales against women for default of payment of fines (a) in total and (b) in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of (i) a TV licence fee fine and...
The Ministry of Justice has published the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes (including fine amounts) for the non-payment of TV licence fees up to December 2020, available in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987715/outcomes-by-offence-2020.xlsx
- Select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter; prosecutions can be found in row 23 and convictions are in row 24.
- To see these figures for females, select ’02: Female’ in the Sex filter.
- The number of fines issued each year can be found in row 28, and the average fine amount in row 78.
Number of charges withdrawn can be found in the Magistrates’ courts data tool: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987723/magistrates-court-2020.xlsx
- Select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter; Charges withdrawn can be found in row 25.
It is not possible to distinguish at which stage the charge was withdrawn, whether the offence was dealt with under a Single Justice Procedure or information regarding plea at magistrates’ court.
Centrally held Ministry of Justice court proceedings data does not record committals for default of fine payment because the offence will be recorded under contempt of court, which will not separately identify non-payment of fines. This information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what number and proportion of committal orders made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales for default of payment of fines have arisen from a TV licence evasion conviction in each year since 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what number and proportion of committal orders made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales for default of payment of fines have arisen from a TV licence evasion conviction in each year since 1995.
This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales against women for default of payment of fines (a) in total (b) in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of (i) a TV licence fee fine and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales against women for default of payment of fines (a) in total (b) in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of (i) a TV licence fee fine and (ii)...
HMCTS can provide data from 2009. Information prior to 2009 is held on legacy systems and is not collated centrally. Such data could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The number of committal orders made (counted by committal warrants issued) for default of payment of fines since 2009 is below. It is not possible to extract information about committal warrants issued in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of a TV Licence fee without disproportionate cost.
The number of committal orders made (determined as committal warrants issued) in relation to the non-payment of council tax is also below.
Year | Total number of Fine Default Committal Warrants Issued | Number of Fine Default Committal Warrants Issued against females. | Total Number of Council Tax Committal Warrants Issued | Number of Council Tax Committal Warrants Issued against females. | |||
2009 1 | 9,757 | 943 | 89 | 21 | |||
2010 | 13,117 | 1,142 | 122 | 43 | |||
2011 | 13,572 | 1,182 | 108 | 33 | |||
2012 | 14,169 | 1,234 | 107 | 38 | |||
2013 | 13,376 | 1,245 | 108 | 36 | |||
2014 | 14,122 | 1,236 | 89 | 29 | |||
2015 | 12,767 | 1,085 | 69 | 22 | |||
2016 | 12,463 | 1,043 | 112 | 42 | |||
2017 | 11,837 | 844 | 41 | 11 | |||
2018 | 9,308 | 548 | 16 | ~ | |||
2019 2 | 3,651 | 208 | 8 | ~ | |||
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1 2009 is for the period 1st April to 31st December 2009. |
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2 2019 is for the period 1st January to 30th June 2019: |
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Data Notes:
- Data are taken from a live management information system and can change over time.
- Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.
- The data provided are the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.
- The Fine Default and Council Tax data provided is a count of the number of committal warrants issued.
- For data from 1st April 2009 onwards, TV Licensing is the prosecutor, and the enforcer of the debt, so they would hold the detail that is required. HMCTS is only able to provide the number of prosecutions brought by the TV Licensing, and how many resulted in imprisonment.
- Information as to outstanding debt is not recorded within HMCTS statistics available through Libra. Files not destroyed under the retention schedule (e.g. within three years old) would have to be checked on a court by court basis.
- It is possible to identify committals in relation to Council Tax because Council Tax data is not a subset of the Fine Enforcement data; it is based on a Civil process in the magistrates’ courts rather than the enforcement of unpaid fines, and hence has different Libra offence codes.
- Information prior to 1st April 2009 is held on legacy systems and is not collated centrally.
- The data extract for this PQ included gender. However, generic titles such as Doctor, Reverend etc which would not determine the gender are not included within the data. Therefore, only where Female has been specified has this been used in the Female table.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by magistrates’ courts in England and Wales for default of payment of fines (a) in total, (b) for a conviction for the non-payment of a TV licence fee fine and (c) for the non-payment of council...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal orders were made by magistrates’ courts in England and Wales for default of payment of fines (a) in total, (b) for a conviction for the non-payment of a TV licence fee fine and (c) for the non-payment of council...
HMCTS can provide data from 2009. Information prior to 2009 is held on legacy systems and is not collated centrally. Such data could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The number of committal orders made (counted by committal warrants issued) for default of payment of fines since 2009 is below. It is not possible to extract information about committal warrants issued in relation to a conviction for the non-payment of a TV Licence fee without disproportionate cost.
The number of committal orders made (determined as committal warrants issued) in relation to the non-payment of council tax is also below.
Year | Total number of Fine Default Committal Warrants Issued | Number of Fine Default Committal Warrants Issued against females. | Total Number of Council Tax Committal Warrants Issued | Number of Council Tax Committal Warrants Issued against females. | |||
2009 1 | 9,757 | 943 | 89 | 21 | |||
2010 | 13,117 | 1,142 | 122 | 43 | |||
2011 | 13,572 | 1,182 | 108 | 33 | |||
2012 | 14,169 | 1,234 | 107 | 38 | |||
2013 | 13,376 | 1,245 | 108 | 36 | |||
2014 | 14,122 | 1,236 | 89 | 29 | |||
2015 | 12,767 | 1,085 | 69 | 22 | |||
2016 | 12,463 | 1,043 | 112 | 42 | |||
2017 | 11,837 | 844 | 41 | 11 | |||
2018 | 9,308 | 548 | 16 | ~ | |||
2019 2 | 3,651 | 208 | 8 | ~ | |||
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2 2019 is for the period 1st January to 30th June 2019: |
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Data Notes:
- Data are taken from a live management information system and can change over time.
- Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.
- The data provided are the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.
- The Fine Default and Council Tax data provided is a count of the number of committal warrants issued.
- For data from 1st April 2009 onwards, TV Licensing is the prosecutor, and the enforcer of the debt, so they would hold the detail that is required. HMCTS is only able to provide the number of prosecutions brought by the TV Licensing, and how many resulted in imprisonment.
- Information as to outstanding debt is not recorded within HMCTS statistics available through Libra. Files not destroyed under the retention schedule (e.g. within three years old) would have to be checked on a court by court basis.
- It is possible to identify committals in relation to Council Tax because Council Tax data is not a subset of the Fine Enforcement data; it is based on a Civil process in the magistrates’ courts rather than the enforcement of unpaid fines, and hence has different Libra offence codes.
- Information prior to 1st April 2009 is held on legacy systems and is not collated centrally.
- The data extract for this PQ included gender. However, generic titles such as Doctor, Reverend etc which would not determine the gender are not included within the data. Therefore, only where Female has been specified has this been used in the Female table.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many committal orders have been issued under each category for (a) the Child Maintenance Service and (b) the Child Support Agency in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many committal orders have been issued under each category for (a) the Child Maintenance Service and (b) the Child Support Agency in each of the last five years.
Committal orders, or sanctions as they are called in the Child Maintenance Service, are reported in our published statistics and can be on found table 11 of the tables document on the attached link:
We reported enforcement activities in our CSA statistics until September 2017 when we reduced the number of tables published because most CSA cases had been closed or had begun the Case Closure process. The last publication including the enforcement activities can be found on table 22 of the attached link:
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal proceedings have been started against people for council tax non-payment in each year between 2010 and 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many committal proceedings have been started against people for council tax non-payment in each year between 2010 and 2018.
The table below shows the numbers of committal orders issued as a result of proceedings against people for council tax non-payment since 2010.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
111 | 116 | 98 | 110 | 86 | 65 | 106 | 34 |
The department does not hold information on how many proceedings have been started.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people did not keep up with suspended committal order payments for council tax debt in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people did not keep up with suspended committal order payments for council tax debt in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
The Ministry of Justice does not centrally hold the information requested.
Local Authorities are the responsible prosecuting body for council tax evasion and hold the relevant information regarding council tax debts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people kept up with suspended committal order payments for council tax debt in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people kept up with suspended committal order payments for council tax debt in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
The Ministry of Justice does not centrally hold the information requested.
Local Authorities are the responsible prosecuting body for council tax evasion and hold the relevant information regarding council tax debts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people paid their council tax debt in full part way through committal proceedings in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people paid their council tax debt in full part way through committal proceedings in England and Wales in each year between 2010 and 2018.
The Ministry of Justice does not centrally hold the information requested.
Local Authorities are the responsible prosecuting body for council tax evasion and hold the relevant information regarding council tax debts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the progress of the Child Support Agency in restarting committal proceedings since the end of the moratorium.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the progress of the Child Support Agency in restarting committal proceedings since the end of the moratorium.
Since the end of the moratorium the Child Support Agency has applied for hearing dates for cases where a parent has had their committal suspended in an initial hearing on condition they comply with certain payment conditions and has subsequently defaulted (‘show cause' cases). In these cases the Agency has generally been successful in getting agreement from the courts to lift the suspension of the measures imposed.
While the flow of new commitment cases has reduced significantly as a consequence of revised procedures, the Agency is no longer confining cases going to court to ‘show cause' cases. Other new applications have now been lodged in court and hearing dates assigned which will fully test out our revised processes and procedures. Providing these cases progress satisfactorily, a number of other cases which are at an earlier stage in the enforcement process are likely to quickly follow.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many cases the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many cases the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings in each of the last five years.
Information on the number of cases in which the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings is only readily available from 2010. The following table shows the number of cases where committal proceedings were started for each of the last three complete financial years and the current year to date:
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year | Committal
proceeding
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2010 to March
2011 | 3,270 |
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2011 to March
2012 | 3,560 |
| April
2012 to March
2013 | 300 |
| April
2013 to August
2013 | 1— |
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threshold. Notes: 1. Following a Court Of Appeal decision in October 2012, a review of the Commitment to Prison process was carried out to ensure it complied with the terms of the judgment given in that case. While doing so, applications for Commitment to Prison were not brought before the court. Procedures resumed from March 2013. 2. Data sourced from Tallyman Informer. 3. Data rounded to the nearest 10. |
Other information on the outcome of committal proceedings which may be relevant is available on page 40 of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2013
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Kenneth Clarke) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. It is in the interests of victims and witnesses, and of the criminal justice system generally, that court procedures should be made as efficient as possible, for example...
My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Kenneth Clarke) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. It is in the interests of victims and witnesses, and of the criminal justice system generally, that court procedures should be made as efficient as possible, for example...
It is in the interests of victims and witnesses, and of the criminal justice system generally, that court procedures should be made as efficient as possible, for example by cutting out unnecessary court hearings. More than 10 years ago, committal proceedings were abolished in indictable-only offences, and replaced by a...
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