{"value":{"id":1287632,"askingMemberId":318,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-02-23T00:00:00","uin":"154744","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines were (a) imposed by the courts and (b) paid in 2019.","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4503,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-03-01T00:00:00","answerText":"

Data on the number of fines issued at all courts (on a principal offence basis) is published in the Outcomes by Offence data tool available here. It shows that a total of 926,993 fines were issued by all courts in 2019: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/938568/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2019.xlsx

Data on the value of fines issued in 2019, the amount paid relating to the fines issued in 2019 and the amount paid that relates to fines issued in prior years, can be viewed in this table:

Value of impositions made in the period Jan to Dec 2019

Collections received in 2019 relating to impositions made in the period Jan to Dec 2019

Collections received in 2019 relating to impositions made prior to December 2018

£000

£000

£000

Compensation

29,224

8,236

19,046

Victim Surcharge

45,216

19,316

14,030

Crown Prosecution Costs

29,281

11,362

17,364

Prosecutor Costs

95,663

34,010

41,536

Fines

327,004

102,503

136,345

Total

526,388

175,427

228,321

Notes:

  1. This data has been published in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 HMCTS Trust Statements.
  2. The data excludes fines that are subsequently written off following a judicial cancellation
  3. The whole data set has been included because a fine is only one element of an overall imposition that is made against a defendant. An imposition will usually consist of a number of elements including compensation, victim surcharge, costs and a fine. The total imposition is then enforced as a whole and there is a very strict legal hierarchy that is applied to any receipts that are received, such that any compensation that is owed by the defendant is paid first, then victim surcharge, then costs and finally the fine.

The data provided is all for the 2019 calendar year.

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