Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals have failed to comply with a community protection notice each year since 2010.

As part of the Government’s commitment to tackling and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB), the Government provided the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of flexible tools and powers that they can use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This includes the Community Protection Notices, which can be issued by the police or the local authority to deal with ongoing problems or nuisances which are having a persistent or continuing and detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality.

Breach of a Community Protection Notice is a criminal offence and, in such instances, a fine will be imposed. The Government takes the recovery and enforcement of all financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to ensuring impositions are paid. This includes fines issued for breaches of Community Protection Notices.

Information on the number of individuals who have been prosecuted for failing to comply with a Community Protection Notice can be found across the following data tools:

• Source 1: Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2022 (July 2017 to June 2022)

• Source 2: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021 (January 2017 to June 2017)

• Source 3: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool (January 2014 to December 2016)

The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay their fines and use a variety of means to ensure the recovery of criminal fines and financial penalties, resulting in the ongoing recuperation of significant sums by the courts.

As the Community Protection Notices were introduced in 2014, no defendants were recorded as dealt with for this offence prior to 2014.