Courts: Fines
(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the collection rate was for fines levied by each local criminal justice board in the last year for which figures are available.
This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to encourage payment of impositions and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years.
The table below shows the proportion of the value of financial impositions (made between April 2013 to March 2014) that had been collected, cancelled or remained outstanding as at 31st March 2014. Financial impositions include fines, prosecution costs, compensation and victim surcharge.
Accounting Division Name | Collected Against Impositions in Period | Cancelled Impositions in Period | Outstanding at the end of the Period |
Avon and Somerset | 36% | 10% | 54% |
Bedfordshire | 44% | 9% | 47% |
Cambridgeshire | 40% | 5% | 55% |
Cheshire | 51% | 4% | 45% |
Cleveland | 32% | 8% | 60% |
Cumbria | 34% | 5% | 60% |
Derbyshire | 39% | 7% | 54% |
Devon and Cornwall | 48% | 9% | 43% |
Dorset | 37% | 8% | 54% |
Durham | 38% | 8% | 55% |
Dyfed Powys | 46% | 10% | 44% |
Essex | 48% | 6% | 46% |
Gloucestershire | 42% | 7% | 51% |
Greater Manchester | 32% | 9% | 60% |
Gwent | 37% | 12% | 52% |
Hampshire & IOW | 37% | 11% | 52% |
Hertfordshire | 40% | 8% | 52% |
Humberside | 40% | 5% | 55% |
Kent | 35% | 6% | 59% |
Lancashire | 34% | 16% | 50% |
Leicestershire | 43% | 14% | 44% |
Lincolnshire | 44% | 10% | 46% |
London | 34% | 8% | 58% |
Merseyside | 32% | 6% | 62% |
Norfolk | 38% | 8% | 54% |
North Wales | 45% | 6% | 48% |
North Yorkshire | 51% | 5% | 43% |
Northamptonshire | 34% | 6% | 59% |
Northumbria | 33% | 7% | 60% |
Nottinghamshire | 36% | 10% | 54% |
South Wales | 40% | 11% | 48% |
South Yorkshire | 28% | 10% | 62% |
Staffordshire | 35% | 9% | 56% |
Suffolk | 38% | 9% | 53% |
Surrey | 55% | 5% | 40% |
Sussex | 41% | 6% | 52% |
Thames Valley | 45% | 7% | 48% |
Warwickshire | 36% | 7% | 57% |
West Mercia | 35% | 15% | 50% |
West Midlands | 32% | 6% | 62% |
West Yorkshire | 33% | 18% | 49% |
Wiltshire | 37% | 5% | 58% |
The ‘percentage outstanding’ is based upon the value of accounts outstanding at the end of the period; it includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. The ‘accounts cancelled’ percentage comprises both administrative and legal cancellations.