Tulip Siddiq – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2015-12-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been levied the criminal courts charge for offences (a) under Section 363 of the Communications Act 2003, (b) under Section 1(10) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, (c) under Section 8 of the Disorderly Houses Act 1751, (d) under Sections 1, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 18 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, (e) for deliberate refusal to pay priority debts and (f) for failure to comply with a county court judgement for the payment of non-priority debts.
Mr Shailesh Vara
Data relating to the criminal courts charge for the period April to September 2015 will be published on 17 December 2015.
Enforcement action is taken against the total amount an offender owes and offenders are often ordered to pay more than one type of financial imposition.
The cost of enforcing the criminal courts charge cannot be separated from the total cost of enforcing all types of court ordered financial impositions.
It is not possible to identify how many people have had a criminal courts charge imposed in magistrates or crown courts or for specific offences without carrying out a manual search of all financial imposition accounts which would incur disproportionate costs.
