Coronavirus: Crime

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were fined for breaching laws related to the covid-19 pandemic in England in each month from March 2020 to February 2022.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

The Ministry of Justice has published quarterly information on the number of people fined in England for breaching laws related to the COVID-19 pandemic up to December 2020; a monthly breakdown of this can be viewed in the attached table.

The attached table presents the number of fines for the following detailed offences:


- Failure to comply with screening restriction/requirement (coronavirus)

- Operator of Port fails to comply with direction under Coronavirus Act 2020

- Offences by potentially infectious persons (coronavirus)

- Breach of emergency period restrictions (coronavirus)

- Offences in relation to events and gatherings (coronavirus)

National statistics on detailed offence level prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for 2021 are due for publication in May 2022. These statistics for 2022 are due for subsequent publication in May 2023.

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