Fines: Surcharges
(asked on 8th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the victims' surcharge has been (a) imposed, (b) collected, (c) cancelled and (d) outstanding for people receiving a (i) conditional discharge, (ii) fine, (iii) suspended sentence, (iv) community sentence and (v) custodial sentence in each financial year since 2010.
The table below shows the value of victim surcharge orders imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding since April 2011.
Victim Surcharge | ||||||||
Victim surcharge imposed | Value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition | Value of victim surcharge cancelled in the same year of imposition (administrative and legal cancellations) 1 | Value of victim surcharge outsanding at end of year of imposition | Total value of victim surcharge collected regardless of imposition date 2 | Total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled regardless of imposition date 3 | Total value of victim surcharge legally cancelled regardless of imposition date 3 | Total value of victim surcharge outstanding regardless of imposition date | |
2010/11 | Data is only available in this format from April 2011 onwards 4 | £501,887 | £473,116 | £7,219,000 | ||||
2011/12 | £12,199,956 | £6,810,532 | £645,381 | £4,744,043 | £10,281,567 | £1,355,514 | £1,163,017 | £10,121,000 |
2012/13 | £15,508,307 | £7,607,886 | £888,027 | £7,012,395 | £10,517,641 | £1,605,519 | £1,384,779 | £12,084,000 |
2013/14 | £33,726,535 | £15,343,460 | £2,265,389 | £16,117,686 | £19,548,368 | £2,395,662 | £2,937,982 | £21,110,000 |
2014/15 | £38,631,424 | £17,302,260 | £2,350,532 | £18,978,631 | £24,569,735 | £2,362,914 | £3,711,748 | £29,381,000 |
The HMCTS Trust Statement also provides financial information on fines, victim surcharge and other types of financial impositions ordered in the criminal courts for each financial year since 2010-11.
It is not possible to subdivide the value of victims’ surcharge imposed, collected and cancelled into the categories of adults, youths and organisations nor report on how many times the victims’ surcharge was imposed, collected and cancelled for various sentences; to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Data notes:
1. The value of victim surcharge that was cancelled in the same year of imposition cannot be broken down into administrative and legal cancellations.
2. The ‘total value of victim surcharge collected in a year’ includes the ‘value of victim surcharge collected in the same year of imposition.
3. The figures representing the total value of victim surcharge administratively cancelled include the values of those victim surcharge impositions administratively cancelled in the same year of imposition. Impositions are only administratively cancelled in accordance with a strict criteria. Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a Judge or Magistrate.
4. The reporting functionality from which this data has been extracted has only been in existence since April 2011 and it is not possible to break the data for 2010 down in the same format.