Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have served custodial sentences due to non-payment of council tax in each of the last 10 years.
The number of people admitted to prison for non-payment of council tax to December 2018 can be viewed in Table A2.12 at the link below:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/796916/receptions-2018.ods