Television Licences: Non-payment
(asked on 22nd October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) people and (b) women were sent to prison for the non-payment of a magistrates’ court fine arising from a conviction for evasion of payment of TV licence fees in each year since 1995.
This question was answered on 28th October 2019
The information requested can be found in the table attached. Furthermore, Sentencing is a matter for independent judges who take the full facts of each case into account.