Television Licences: Non-payment
(asked on 5th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions of women there have been for non-payment of the BBC licence fee in the last 12 months; how many of those have led to a prison sentence; and what proportion of all women prisoners this represents.
This question was answered on 19th November 2018
There were 98,999 females prosecuted for TV licence evasion in the year ending December 2017, the latest published data.
No prosecutions resulted in a custodial sentence.