Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in each local authority area received a court fine in England and Wales for (1) 2016, (2) 2017, (3) 2018, (4) 2019, and (5) 2020.

The Ministry of Justice holds published information on sentencing outcomes in England and Wales up to December 2020.

Court outcomes data is not held at either local authority or local justice area geographical level. Data is published at a police force area geographical level. Data on the number of people in each police force area who received a court fine in England and Wales for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 can be found in the attached table.

We do not centrally hold data on the number of people who do not pay their court fines, and the data requested for each of these questions cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.