Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many warrants have been issued in every year since 2016 instructing approved enforcement agents to seize and sell goods belonging to offenders for unpaid court-imposed fines and (a) what was the outcome of each of those warrants.

In 2016/17, 590,649 warrants of control relating to criminal cases were issued to approved enforcement agents. We do not have an outcome for each of those warrants and to obtain an outcome would incur disproportionate costs.

Verifiable centralised records do not exist beyond this date and it would incur disproportionate costs, both in respect of the number issued and the individual outcomes, to answer this question.