Criminal Proceedings: Fees and Charges

(asked on 14th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether revenue received from the criminal courts charge has exceeded the cost to the public purse of running such courts since that charge was introduced.


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Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 18th December 2015

The principle underlying the Criminal Courts Charge was for offenders to contribute towards the cost of running the Criminal Courts, not to cover the full running costs.


Data on the amount of the Criminal Courts Charge imposed and collected from April to September can be found here – https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics.

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