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.

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.