Andy Slaughter – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2015-01-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2015 to Question 217822, what the total value was of outstanding financial impositions in each local criminal justice board area at the end of (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.
Mike Penning
This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years. The amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14 and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.
The table below shows the value of financial impositions outstanding as at the end of the financial years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.
For the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13, the first column of figures represents the outstanding balance of the impositions made during the 2013-14 financial year and the second shows the total value outstanding regardless of imposition date. The ‘in year outstanding value’ is included within the total outstanding value figure. The figures cannot be presented in this manner prior to 2011-12.
The ‘value outstanding’ figures includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified (either because they were imposed close to the end of the year or because they had payment timescales set by the courts for beyond the end of the financial year) and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. These figures include fines, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and prosecution costs orders.
