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Fines
Mr. Clelland: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether any registered vehicle owner has been summoned to appear before a court for not paying a fine imposed for not returning a statutory off-road declaration in the latest period for which figures are available. [167207]
Jim Fitzpatrick: I have been asked to reply.
In the last financial year (2006-07) no summons were issued for failure to return a statutory off road declaration. However 107,550 county court claims were issued.
Mr. Clelland: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether any registered vehicle owners appeared before a court for failure to pay a fine imposed for failure to return a statutory off-road declaration in each of the last five years. [167209]
Jim Fitzpatrick: I have been asked to reply.
The exact number of people who appeared before a court for failure to declare a vehicle off the road are not recorded but the number is very low.
Fixed Penalties
Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many fixed penalty notices were unpaid after (a) 28 days, (b) three months and (c) six months in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 1997. [166935]
Maria Eagle: Available information from 1997-2004 (latest available) is provided in the following tables. 2005 data will be available next year.
The information collected by my Department identifies the number of motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result at police force area level. Data are collected on the disposal (i.e. paid, fine registration certificate issued etc.). However because of the time taken for the procedures for payment to be enforced the data are collected approximately nine months later than the period of issue and published in the following year’s annual volume covering motoring offences.
Motoring offences fixed penalty notices data are submitted to my Department on a calendar year basis from police forces. The data do not contain a month by month breakdown.
| Table A: Motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result( 1) London( 2) ,1997-2004 | |||||||||
| Number of offences | |||||||||
| Result | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| (1) Endorsable and non-endorsable notices combined. (2) Metropolitan and City of London police forces combined. (3) Includes outcomes not finalised. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Annual volume ‘Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary tables’—Table 21(a) | |||||||||
Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough in each year since 1997; [166937]
(2) how many people were issued with fixed penalty notices as a result of evidence from (a) closed circuit television (CCTV) on buses in London in each year since 1997 and (b) the live CCTV pilot on buses in London. [166946]
Maria Eagle: Information on the number of penalty notices for disorder issued in England and London for 2004 and 2005 are provided in the table. Data on the number of PNDs issued by London borough are not collected by my department. The Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) Scheme was rolled out to all police forces in England and Wales in 2004 under the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.
Information on the type of evidence used to issue a PND is not reported to my department.
| Number of penalty notices for disorder issued in England and London 2004 and 2005( 1) | |
| Police force area | Number issued |
| (1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | |
Fraud: Sentencing
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to introduce tougher sentencing for perpetrators of fraud, as recommended in the 2006 Fraud Review. [168181]
Maria Eagle: The Fraud Review recommended that the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) issue guidelines in respect of fraud offences. The SGC has indicated that it intends to issue guidance on sentencing under the new Fraud Act 2006. On 16 August 2007, the Sentencing Advisory Panel issued a consultation paper on sentencing for fraud offences. The consultation will close on 6 December 2007.
The Fraud Review also recommended increases in the maximum sentence for fraud offences. The Government are considering their response.
Magistrates Courts: Finance
Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on (a) magistrates courts and (b) administration of magistrates courts in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 1997. [166932]
Maria Eagle: HMCS was formed on 1 April 2005 by the merger of the Court Service and 42 magistrates areas.
Following the creation of HMCS the accounting records of the Court Service were archived and accessing them to provide the information back to 1997 would be disproportionately expensive for the Department. Information is not recorded centrally on a London borough basis and to obtain this information would be disproportionately expensive.
Expenditure on magistrates courts and the administrative costs of magistrates courts available since the inception of HMCS, have been provided in the following table:
| £000 | ||
| England | London | |
Mohammed Ilyas Khan
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether any immigration cases previously adjudicated by (a) Mr. Mohammed Ilyas Khan and (b) Judge J have been reopened following the investigation of the Office for Judicial Complaints. [167211]
Bridget Prentice: No asylum or immigration appeals adjudicated by Judge Khan or Judge J have been reopened following the investigation by the Office for Judicial Complaints.
Political Parties: Finance
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much each registered political party (a) spent and (b) raised by donation and reported to the Electoral Commission in each year since 2001. [167246]
Bridget Prentice: The number of registered political parties in the UK has fluctuated over the period 2001 to 2007. There are currently some 363 registered political parties in the UK.
The information sought is not collected by the Ministry of Justice. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) requires each registered party to submit annual accounts to the Electoral Commission, the format and content of which varies according to the total income or gross expenditure incurred by a party or accounting unit. Parties are also required to report donations to the Electoral Commission each year. Details of all donations of more than £5,000 accepted by the party HQ and all donations of more than 1,000 accepted by a party accounting unit must be reported.
The parties' donation reports, accounts and campaign expenditure returns are all published by the Commission and are available to view on their website.
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