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Courts: Fines

Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN HL6708, tabled on 7 March 2022

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.