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Television Licences: Non-payment

Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN HL3373, tabled on 10 December 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have been imprisoned in each of the past five years for non-payment of the BBC licence fee.

Answered on

17 December 2024

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentencing outcomes for a wide range of offences including Television Licence Evasion in England and Wales between 2020 and June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly: June 2024.

In the last five years there have been no sentences of immediate custody for Television Licence Evasion in England and Wales.