Courts: Fines
(asked on 21st January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value of fines was (a) issued by the courts and (b) collected in 2013-14 in each local criminal justice board area.
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 ordered by the courts in 2013/14, and the total value of financial impositions collected in the year.
Area | Impositions 2013/14 | Collected Against Impositions in year | Total collected in the year - regardless of imposition date |
Avon and Somerset | £10,488,481 | £3,816,902 | £7,172,942 |
Bedfordshire | £4,225,416 | £1,859,237 | £3,202,616 |
Cambridgeshire | £4,890,202 | £1,933,970 | £3,547,387 |
Cheshire | £7,518,203 | £3,839,030 | £6,066,620 |
Cleveland | £3,994,238 | £1,275,769 | £2,882,318 |
Cumbria | £4,381,676 | £1,500,696 | £2,790,743 |
Derbyshire | £4,619,046 | £1,802,742 | £3,453,856 |
Devon and Cornwall | £7,275,905 | £3,492,226 | £6,154,292 |
Dorset | £4,254,020 | £1,592,455 | £3,388,107 |
Durham | £3,100,039 | £1,169,332 | £2,473,197 |
Dyfed Powys | £3,774,386 | £1,743,944 | £2,898,590 |
Essex | £10,989,916 | £5,222,015 | £8,443,356 |
Gloucestershire | £2,145,012 | £894,327 | £1,840,466 |
Greater Manchester | £22,329,688 | £7,039,630 | £15,250,585 |
Gwent | £4,788,550 | £1,762,976 | £3,527,232 |
Hampshire & IOW | £11,013,958 | £4,079,985 | £8,459,808 |
Hertfordshire | £9,563,529 | £3,829,326 | £6,440,952 |
Humberside | £7,136,166 | £2,837,722 | £5,694,120 |
Kent | £11,982,516 | £4,191,673 | £8,362,118 |
Lancashire | £13,146,146 | £4,475,514 | £7,798,619 |
Leicestershire | £6,044,190 | £2,577,867 | £4,320,886 |
Lincolnshire | £6,141,834 | £2,706,212 | £4,210,021 |
London Central & South East | £37,479,069 | £12,591,694 | £21,055,254 |
London North East | £19,420,646 | £5,919,447 | £10,646,490 |
London North West | £23,238,619 | £8,598,442 | £14,243,408 |
London South West | £1,627,698 | £903,715 | £3,659,537 |
Merseyside | £12,266,671 | £3,901,058 | £9,556,566 |
Norfolk | £4,810,313 | £1,825,238 | £3,307,277 |
North Wales | £5,476,857 | £2,476,682 | £4,264,771 |
North Yorkshire | £4,247,146 | £2,168,730 | £3,489,709 |
Northamptonshire | £4,046,826 | £1,391,365 | £2,909,235 |
Northumbria | £10,806,079 | £3,613,008 | £7,385,384 |
Nottinghamshire | £8,409,069 | £3,050,949 | £5,254,473 |
South Wales | £16,335,911 | £6,584,635 | £10,762,439 |
South Yorkshire | £9,955,309 | £2,808,251 | £5,752,104 |
Staffordshire | £8,075,539 | £2,824,654 | £6,008,493 |
Suffolk | £4,945,931 | £1,887,068 | £3,309,711 |
Surrey | £7,833,947 | £4,298,880 | £6,331,557 |
Sussex | £7,295,943 | £3,024,765 | £5,986,262 |
Thames Valley | £13,975,694 | £6,347,357 | £10,957,532 |
Warwickshire | £5,478,730 | £1,967,666 | £3,137,619 |
West Mercia | £9,034,521 | £3,169,955 | £5,749,674 |
West Midlands | £18,824,807 | £5,980,168 | £14,196,420 |
West Yorkshire | £19,708,027 | £6,593,972 | £11,421,315 |
Wiltshire | £3,159,373 | £1,163,257 | £2,547,769 |
Total | £420,255,840 | £156,734,504 | £290,311,831 |
These figures include fines, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and prosecution costs orders. The value of the impositions that remain outstanding at the end of the year includes 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.