Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many ongoing prosecutions there are for TV licence non-payment.

The Ministry of Justice has published the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for the non-payment of TV licence fees up to December 2019, available in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888664/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2019.xlsx

• Select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter; prosecutions can be found in row 23 and convictions are in row 24.
• To see these figures for females, select ’02: Female’ in the Sex filter.

The Ministry of Justice court proceedings database counts prosecutions at the point of completion at magistrates’ court and therefore we do not hold the number of ongoing cases for TV licence non-payment.