Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for breaching covid-19 restrictions since January 2022.

The Ministry of Justice holds data on convictions for breaching coronavirus regulations covering the period requested and this can be viewed in the Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023.

Specific offences of note include the following HO codes:

16857 – Failure to comply with screening restriction/requirement (coronavirus)

16858 – Operator of Port fails to comply with direction under Coronavirus Act 2020

16859 – Offences by potentially infectious persons (coronavirus)

16860 – Breach of emergency period restrictions (coronavirus)

16861 – Offences in relation to events and gatherings (coronavirus)

These can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab and using the HO Offence Code filter to select an above offence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool.