Council Tax: Non-payment
(asked on 22nd September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds annual data on the rates of committal proceedings, committal orders and days spent in prison with regard to unpaid Council Tax for the period of 2018-2021.
This question was answered on 22nd October 2021
The department does not hold information on how many proceedings have been started.
Data on the number of committals to prison for Council Tax non-payment since 2018 can be found in the attached table.
On average (mean) civil prisoners received into custody for non-payment of Council Tax from 2018-2020 spent 25 days in custody.