Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been (a) paid to victims and (b) remains outstanding for compensation orders agreed by the courts in each year since 2010.

This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial impositions collected over the last three years.

The table below shows the total amount of compensation collected in each year and the amount outstanding at the end of the year.

The balance outstanding includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service are looking to work with an external provider for future provision of the compliance and enforcement service. Working with an external provider would bring the necessary investment and technology HMCTS needs to achieve its aspirations for compliance and enforcement services in the future. It will enable the automation of many of the manual administrative processes and in turn decrease the cost of providing fine enforcement and increase the amount of fines that are paid. The innovation this will bring and the use of automated administrative processes will free up staff time to be more pro-active in pursuing offenders to ensure they comply with their court order.