Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for non-payment of the BBC licence fee there have been in each of the last 15 years; and how many of those (i) prosecutions and (ii) convictions were of (A) men and (B) women.
MOJ has published prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for England and Wales, with a filter for sex, from December 2010 to December 2020, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence data tool’, available here:
These figures can be found for 2005 to 2015, using the same filters as above, here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524326/cjs-outcomes-by-offence.xlsx
The number of prosecutions and convictions for television licence evasion between 2005 to 2020, broken down by sex, can be found in the attached tables for ease.
The Ministry of Justice does not hold information broken down by constituency.