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, by (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local authority.

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:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987715/outcomes-by-offence-2020.xlsx

• Select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter; prosecutions can be found on row 23 and convictions can be found on row 24.
• Select ‘male’ or ‘female’ in the sex filter to view the number of prosecutions and convictions for men and women.

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.