Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the collection rates were for warrants of control by HM Courts and Tribunals Service on Warrants of Control for each year since 2008.
Answered by Dominic Raab
HMCTS currently has a contract with a number of Approved Enforcement Agencies (AEAs) for the execution of criminal warrants and orders and this includes the warrants of control. The table below is the information recorded for the current contract which commenced in December 2009. This data is restricted to warrants of control relating to criminal cases only. These warrants are normally issued when all other sanctions have failed and AEAs are only paid on successful execution. All returned warrants are reviewed to consider alternative method of enforcement. The contract measure is for the number of warrants fully paid within 180 days of issue, shown in column three. Other payments will be made outside the 180 days but we do not have performance data on them.
Approved Enforcement Agency Contract -Warrants of Control | ||||
| Issued | Number Fully Paid | Executed | Total Cash received per annum |
| in 180 days | |||
2009/10 | 553,726 | 92,906 | 18.67% | £21,436,700 |
2010/11 | 564,116 | 101,303 | 19.63% | £22,642,734 |
2011/12 | 652,427 | 138,036 | 23.59% | £30,480,254 |
2012/13 | 675,431 | 131,215 | 22.37% | £31,143,255 |
2013/14 | 647,642 | 125,020 | 23.10% | £38,893,841 |
2014/15 | 736,663 | 149,437 | 24.98% | £47,816,967 |
2015/16 | 598,224 | 127,578 | 26.26% | £44,207,156 |
2016/17 | 590,649 | 133,850 | 26.68% | £55,003,836 |
Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many warrants of arrest have been (a) issued by HM Courts and Tribunals Service and (b) executed by civilian enforcement officers in each of the last three years.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The table below illustrates the total numbers of arrest warrants issued to HMCTS Civilian Enforcement Officers, the police and the Approved Enforcement Agencies to be executed during each of the last three years.
| 2016/2017 | 2015/2016 | 2014/2015 |
Financial arrest | 145,373 | 207,322 | 213,773 |
Community Penalty Breach Warrant | 20,266 | 16,736 | 17,317 |
Total | 165,639 | 224,058 | 231,090 |
It is not possible to identify and calculate how many of these warrants of arrest were specifically executed by civilian enforcement officers in any specific year without incurring disproportionate costs.