Fines

(asked on 8th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines have been (a) issued by courts and (b) collected in the most recent 12 months for which records are available.


Answered by
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Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 14th July 2015

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 four years. The amount of money collected has risen from £259m to a record of £310 million at the end of 2014/15. This is an increase of £20m (7%) in cash collection of financial impositions (excluding confiscation) compared to that collected in 2013/14.

The number of financial imposition accounts opened and closed since 2012 is published here: (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015)

Financial impositions include fines imposed in the Magistrates and Crown courts, costs orders, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and unpaid fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder which are registered as fines for enforcement.

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