Courts: Fines

(asked on 9th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2014 to Question 213487, what the total value is of outstanding financial impositions in each local criminal justice board area.


Answered by
Shailesh Vara Portrait
Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 13th January 2015

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 penalties collected over the last three years. The amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14 and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.

The table below shows the value of financial impositions outstanding as at the end of March 2014; the first column of figures represents the balance outstanding of the impositions made during the 2013/14 financial year and the second shows the total value outstanding regardless of imposition date. The ‘in year outstanding value’ is included within the total outstanding value figure.

The ‘value outstanding’ figures include accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified (either because they were imposed close to the end of the year or because they had payment timescales set by the courts for beyond the end of the financial year) and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. These figures include fines, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and prosecution costs orders.

Area

Value outstanding of the impositions made in 2013/14 as at end of March 2014

Total value outstanding regardless of imposition date as at the end of March 2014

Avon and Somerset

£5,619,129

£12,553,883

Bedfordshire

£1,993,428

£4,089,206

Cambridgeshire

£2,703,891

£7,038,014

Cheshire

£3,399,702

£9,244,929

Cleveland

£2,402,047

£5,032,666

Cumbria

£2,640,263

£4,375,845

Derbyshire

£2,510,078

£4,900,253

Devon and Cornwall

£3,156,574

£6,884,992

Dorset

£2,310,086

£6,195,513

Durham

£1,694,578

£3,437,278

Dyfed Powys

£1,655,354

£3,339,862

Essex

£5,109,102

£11,727,731

Gloucestershire

£1,090,372

£3,000,161

Greater Manchester

£13,289,385

£36,689,144

Gwent

£2,469,746

£4,921,206

Hampshire & IOW

£5,702,306

£16,166,430

Hertfordshire

£4,957,126

£11,020,506

Humberside

£3,952,318

£10,095,165

Kent

£7,019,646

£18,527,317

Lancashire

£6,510,390

£12,622,950

Leicestershire

£2,635,809

£4,459,648

Lincolnshire

£2,845,002

£5,008,456

London Central & South

£21,953,798

£51,113,995

London North East

£11,947,473

£30,347,785

London North West

£12,824,734

£32,678,929

London South West

£687,694

£13,433,436

Merseyside

£7,663,814

£29,436,895

Norfolk

£2,617,344

£6,313,368

North Wales

£2,651,292

£5,871,714

North Yorkshire

£1,845,893

£3,706,423

Northamptonshire

£2,402,450

£5,079,815

Northumbria

£6,458,612

£14,394,158

Nottinghamshire

£4,528,741

£7,142,505

South Wales

£7,917,616

£12,277,550

South Yorkshire

£6,124,833

£12,989,876

Staffordshire

£4,494,258

£10,973,530

Suffolk

£2,637,989

£6,411,105

Surrey

£3,171,345

£7,425,288

Sussex

£3,823,916

£12,189,588

Thames Valley

£6,700,496

£18,575,082

Warwickshire

£3,141,110

£4,877,725

West Mercia

£4,537,306

£9,479,843

West Midlands

£11,689,675

£30,516,365

West Yorkshire

£9,630,393

£17,079,786

Wiltshire

£1,826,437

£5,165,096

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