Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for non-payment of the TV licence, by gender, in each of the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions for TV licence evasion, by gender, in England and Wales, up to December 2021, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, which can be found here: Criminal justice system statistics quarterly: December 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

To view the number of prosecutions by gender for the non-payment of TV licences:

• Select the ‘prosecutions and convictions’ sheet in the excel document.
• Filter for ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the offence filter.
• To view male and female prosecutions, click anywhere in the table to bring up the pivot table field list and drag ‘sex’ into the rows field.

The number of females prosecuted will be found on row 25 and the number of males prosecuted will be found on row 26.