Television Licences: Non-payment
(asked on 22nd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2018 to Question 198197 on Television: Licensing, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been given custodial sentences for failure to pay fines levied for non-payment of the BBC licence fee in each of the last three years.
The number of people who have been committed to prison for failure to pay fines imposed for non-payment of the BBC licence fee in each of the last three years can be viewed in the table.
Table 1: Sentenced prison admissions for non-payment of the fine associated with using a TV without a licence, by sex; 2015 to 2017 |
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Total | 38 | 29 | 19 |
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Female | 20 | 12 | 8 |
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Male | 18 | 17 | 11 |
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The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. |
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Source: PQ 211130 (Ministry of Justice; ASD-JSAS) |
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