To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individual offenders were committed to prison as a way of enforcing a court fine in (1) 2016, (2) 2017, (3) 2018, (4) 2019, and (5) 2020.
Answered on
21 March 2022
The below table provides the number of committals to prison for non-payment of financial penalties imposed by the criminal courts. We are not able to say how many of these were made specifically in relation to fines.
Sentenced* admissions into prison – for non-payment of financial penalties
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
398 | 257 | 163 | 125 | 63 |
* Sentenced admissions provide a count of prisoners that are classified as sentenced (i.e. the custodial punishment has been decided for the offender) following a court hearing for the first time in the reporting period.