Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines have been issued to people in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency for breaches of covid-19 regulations.

The Ministry of Justice has published prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes in England & Wales up to the year ending December 2020 and is available in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’, available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx.

The Ministry of Justice does not hold information broken down by constituency, but by police force area or court.

The pivot table linked above provides annual/quarterly figures for fines given for COVID-19 offences by Police Force Area. Ellesmere Port and Neston comes under the Cheshire Police Force Area. To find the number of fines given for COVID-19 offences for Cheshire, filter by the following in the above data tool:

• Select ‘16857’, ‘16858’, ‘16859’, ‘16860’ and ‘16861’ in the ‘offence code’ filter.
• Select ‘Cheshire’ in the ‘Police Force Area’ filter.

The number of fines issued for these offences in the Cheshire Police Force Area can be found in the resulting pivot table on row 37.