VAT

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the annual change in the rate of VAT registrations was in each of the previous five years; and what estimate he has made of the effect of such charges on revenue. [193863]

Mr Gauke: HMRC publishes VAT registration figures in the VAT bulletins at the following link.

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutybulletins.aspx

No estimates have been made on the effect on revenue.

VAT: Individual Savings Accounts

Mr Gregory Campbell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will ensure that HM Revenue and Customs refunds unnecessary payments of VAT on ISAs. [193774]

Mr Gauke: Any VAT paid to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that is not properly due will be refunded subject to the normal rules. Guidance on how VAT registered businesses can recover overpaid tax can be found on the HMRC website.

Wales

Trade Unions

Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether his Department is (a) undertaking or (b) plans to undertake a review of the check-off union subscription provision. [194049]

Stephen Crabb: The Wales Office is not an employer in its own right. As the Ministry of Justice is the main employer of staff at the Wales Office, we would follow any changes implemented by the MOJ.

Working Hours

Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proportion of employees in his Department of what (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time. [193975]

Stephen Crabb: The proportion of staff in the Wales Office working flexibly is set out in the following table.

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Transport

Bus Services: Disability

Bridget Phillipson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 20 March 2014, Official Report, column 693W, on bus services: disability, how many public service vehicles (a) in each region and (b) operated by each operator have been issued with PSVAR certificates. [193342]

Stephen Hammond: I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 20 March 2014, Official Report, column 693W. As indicated there, the Department for Transport's annual bus statistics (published in September 2013) show that 78% of buses in England have been issued with PSVAR certificates, while 92% of buses are low floor.

The following table provides a breakdown of PSVAR certificates for each region:

The figures in this table are compiled from annual operator returns to the Department for Transport, which are not broken down by region. To compile the regional level estimates, each operator has been assigned to its main region of operation.

The returns are made under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947, and figures for individual operators are therefore considered as commercially confidential.

Railways: South East

Gordon Henderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps the Government is taking to improve rail infrastructure between Sittingbourne and London stations. [194174]

Stephen Hammond: The new Network Rail Control Period includes investment to improve stations on the route between Sittingbourne and London including, in some cases, longer platforms to accommodate longer trains.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Middle East

Robert Halfon: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received of rocket fire by Islamic Jihad into Israel from Gaza. [193874]

Hugh Robertson: Our posts in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem reported a major upsurge of rocket fire by Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza into Israel on 12-13 March. The Prime Minister condemned this rocket fire during his visit to Israel on 13 March. A renewed ceasefire came into effect later that day.

Trade Unions

Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department is (a) undertaking or (b) plans to undertake a review of the check-off union subscription provision. [194040]

Hugh Robertson: The Minister for the Cabinet Office asked Departments to undertake a review of their ‘check-off’ trade union subscription provision. The FCO recently reviewed its arrangements in this regard and is currently considering the findings of that review before taking a decision on future provision.

Electoral Commission Committee

Electoral Register

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authorities (a) did and (b) did not complete local data matching after the confirmation dry run with the Department for Work and Pensions' database and electoral register. [191816]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that this information was provided to the hon. Member in the answer to his question 191356 on 27 March 2014, Official Report, columns 324-26W.

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will list the registration rates for students in higher education institutions in the UK in ranked order for the most recent period available. [191927]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold data on the registration rates of students by higher education institution.

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The Commission has conducted an analysis of the results of the dry run of the confirmation process to be used during the transition to IER. This indicated that students were one of the groups less likely to be matched against the Department for Work and Pensions database.

This analysis and all the associated data are available to EROs across the country. This has allowed them to identify areas, such as those with large student populations, where they may need to target more of their resources in order to maintain or improve levels of registration.

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will list the local authority databases used by electoral registration officers in the dry run for individual electoral registration for the 10 authorities with the (a) best and (b) worst registration rates. [191928]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that electoral registration officers (EROs) had their own discretion to use any local databases to which they had access to support their work on local data matching. After the dry run was complete the Commission conducted a voluntary survey of EROs on their use of local data following the dry run of confirmation.

Not all EROs responded to that survey so it is not possible to provide a full answer regarding all EROs with the best and worst registration rates. However, amongst the replies received, the following databases were most frequently cited:

Council tax database

Council tax benefits

Housing benefits

Registrar of births and deaths

Housing list/Tenancy records

Residential homes records

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what discussions the Electoral Commission has had with the Office for National Statistics and other Government Departments on the size of the UK population eligible to vote but not registered (a) before and (b) after the publication of its report, Great Britain's Electoral Registers 2011. [192109]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that its 2011 report on Great Britain's electoral registers provided an assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers in force in December 2010 and April 2011 using a house-to-house survey methodology.

The Commission always intended to also carry out an assessment of the same registers by matching them against census data. It has therefore been having discussions with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the National Records of Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) since 2010.

The Commission expects to publish reports on England, Wales and Scotland in summer 2014. The timing of the work in Northern Ireland is still the subject of discussions with NISRA.

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on

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the Electoral Commission, whether the Student Loans Company database has been used for purposes of maximising student registration. [192114]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that the Student Loans Company (SLC) database was used during two data matching pilot projects which were organised by the Cabinet Office and evaluated by the Commission.

These pilots aimed to test the usefulness of giving Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) access to information held on national, public databases in order to improve the accuracy and completeness of their electoral register by identifying unregistered people.

In their evaluation of both pilots the Commission concluded that the Student Loans Company data were of limited use in identifying unregistered people.

The Commission's two evaluation reports can be found here:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/_data/assets/pdf_file/0010/146836/Data-rnatching-pilot-evaluation.pdf

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/_data/assets/pdf_file/0003/156189/Data-mining-pilot-evaluation-report.pdf

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will list each local authority database used by electoral registration offices in the dry run for individual electoral registration (IER) for the 10 local authorities with the (a) best and (b) worst registration rates during the IER dry run. [192119]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that this information was provided to the hon. Member in the answer to question 191356.

Voting Behaviour

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the differential turnout was between the highest and lowest income group in each general election for which such data are available. [191926]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold these data. Some information on how turnout varies by socio-demographic factors is available from an analysis of public opinion polls carried out by Ipsos MORI around general elections. The data for 2010 can be found here:

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2613/How-Britain-Voted-in

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the future propensity to vote of those electors who (a) use and (b) do not use their vote in the first general election after reaching the age of 18 years old. [191932]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that it has not made its own assessment of this issue, but is aware of the studies that have examined it.

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Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of reasons for differential turnout between socio-economic groups. [191999]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that it has not made its own assessment of the reasons for differential turnout between socio-economic groups. However, the Commission is aware of the fact of differential turnout between not only social but demographic and other groups and targets its campaigns accordingly.

For instance, the Commission ensures that its campaigns reach young people by advertising on channels used by that demographic, including Facebook and video-on-demand services, and that its television adverts are frequently placed during programmes with a high viewership among young people.

Chris Ruane: To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many postal votes there were as a proportion of those issued in the top 100 constituencies in turnout ranked order at the 2010 General Election. [192239]

Mr Streeter: The Electoral Commission informs me that a table showing the (a) number of postal votes issued as a proportion of the total electorate and (b) number of postal votes returned as a proportion of the number issued, across the 100 constituencies with the highest turnout at the 2010 general election, has been deposited in the Library.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: British Overseas Territories

Dr Offord: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the objectives of the Green economy projects implemented in the Overseas Territories are. [193142]

Dan Rogerson: The Overseas Territories are highly dependent on the assets provided by their natural environment—their terrestrial and marine ecosystems—for their economic wellbeing. The long-term management of these assets is essential for the development of sustainable ('green') economies in the territories.

The objective of the environmental mainstreaming initiative is to assist individual territories to identify the key issues that need to be addressed to ensure the environment is properly taken into account in all aspects of economic and infrastructure planning. Key issues include proper provision for waste management and the need to better understand the value of the environment to local economies and communities.

To date, three environmental mainstreaming projects have been managed by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee on behalf of the FCO and DEFRA, in the Falkland Islands, British Virgin Islands and Anguilla.

In addition, we have also funded projects in Anguilla through our Darwin Initiative Challenge Fund in 2012 and they are now developing a National Ecosystem

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Assessment using Darwin Plus funding. The purpose of this is to move towards a green economy by strengthening environmental management and sustainable growth, raising awareness of the value of ecosystems to the economy and providing evidence-based implementation of green policies.

Floods

Nigel Adams: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many properties built after January 2009 were flooded in winter 2013-14; and what guidance his Department issues to home owners who are declined insurance by their provider because of risk of flooding. [R] [193817]

Dan Rogerson: We do not collect information on the number of properties built after January 2009 which were flooded in the winter of 2013-14. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published a “Guide to obtaining flood insurance in high risk areas” on the gov.uk website, which sets out steps for households in flood risk areas to access appropriate insurance.

Horses: Animal Welfare

Julian Sturdy: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) the welfare of horses is considered a priority in live exports and (b) laws relating to the welfare of horses are being enforced. [194277]

George Eustice: The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) carries out non-discriminatory, risk-based inspections of animals, means of transport and accompanying documentation, as required by Council Regulation (EC) 1/2005. This Regulation is implemented in England by The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (England) Order 2006 (WATEO).

Local authorities are responsible for enforcement of this legislation, in terms of investigating and, where appropriate, taking prosecution action against any transporters alleged to have committed an offence.

Members: Correspondence

Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to reply to the letter to him dated 20 February 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms T Morris. [194175]

George Eustice: The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson), has replied to the right hon. Member's letter and the response will be with him shortly.

Sheep: Theft

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what resources are being allocated to prevent sheep rustling. [193599]

Norman Baker: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Department.

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It is for Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure that forces use those resources to tackle the crimes that matter most to the communities they serve, including sheep rustling where that is a local priority.

The Government will provide £8.5 billion to the police in England and Wales in 2014-15, demonstrating our continued commitment to protecting the public from crime. In addition, the police receive around a quarter of their total funding from the police precept component of council tax.

Working Hours

Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of employees in his Department of what (a) civil service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time. [193963]

Dan Rogerson: Information for core DEFRA staff is as follows:

Justice

Confiscation Orders

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what value of confiscation orders were (a) issued and (b) uncollected in each year since 2010; [185720]

(2) how many confiscation orders (a) were issued and (b) went uncollected in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013. [186101]

Mr Vara: The value of confiscation orders imposed and the amounts outstanding for those orders, both with and without interest, as at 30 January 2014, for the calendar years from 2010 onwards, are set out in Table

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A as follows. The volume of orders imposed and those that remain outstanding is in Table B

Confiscation orders are one of the key mechanisms available to the Government to deprive criminals of the proceeds of their crimes. The value of the order imposed, which is often very high, is based on the criminal benefit attributed to the crime and may, therefore, exceed the value of realisable assets that are known to the court at the time of imposition. Crucially, an outstanding order stops the criminal benefitting from the proceeds of crime and ensures that, if the assets are discovered in the future, they can be seized.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and other enforcement agencies take the issue of recovering criminal assets very seriously and are working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide.

Although, as the enforcement authority, HMCTS owns the debt, it is not always the lead enforcement agency. HMCTS tends to lead on the high-volume, low- value orders. Prosecution agencies, including the CPS and the Serious Fraud Office, lead on enforcement where they have put Restraint Orders on the defendant's property to protect the asset, or where the professional expertise of an Enforcement Receiver will be required to enforce the confiscation order.

All outstanding amounts are actively pursued using a range of enforcement tools open to us. A confiscation order is a lifetime order and only amounts up to £50 can be written off. Default sentences of up to 10 years in prison are activated for non payment. Serving the default sentence does not cancel the debt and we will continue to pursue the amount owed. Interest is added to the order balance outstanding at the rate of 8% per annum. The fact that interest accrues at such a high rate and amounts over £50 cannot be written off contributes to the increasing level of debt. At the end of December

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2013, the total amount outstanding was £1.47 billion, of which £372 million was interest alone. At the end of December 2013, including interest £24 million is owed by defendants who are deceased and a further £86 million is owed by defendants who have been deported. Even for those that are deported we still try to actively pursue the defendant’s assets held abroad, but we rely on the co-operation of overseas enforcement agencies, which is often not forthcoming. The agencies responsible for enforcement are building better relationships with overseas authorities and engage specialist forensic teams to track down hidden assets.

The amount defendants repaid from their criminal activity across all agencies reached an all-time high during 2012-13, with a total of £133.1 million recovered. That represented a 7% increase on the £124.1 million recovered during 2011-12. The total amount recovered has increased for the last four consecutive years and once again we are on course to have another record- breaking year this financial year. For the 2013-14 financial year, at the end of December 2013, £102.8 million had been recovered, which is an increase of 2% on the £100.5 million that was collected up to December 2012. Since 2008-09, when £98.8 million was recovered, the amount collected from criminals has increased by 35%.

HMCTS is seeking a commercial partner to help increase collections, reduce enforcement costs and, importantly, ensure more criminals pay. A new national system has been implemented to manage the collection

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of fixed penalty notices, with all of the police forces having transferred to the new platform by June 2013.The continuing improvement the agencies are making combined with our future plans will ensure that more criminals pay and that taxpayers get better value for money.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many outstanding confiscation orders were written off in each year since 2010. [185721]

Mr Vara: The volume of confiscation orders reduced or written off from 2010 to 2013 is recorded in Table A, while the value of amounts reduced or written off is recorded in Table B.

Following are explanations of the limited ways an outstanding confiscation order can be reduced or written off.

Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (DTOA) Default Served

Serving the default sentence of up to 10 years for non payment of a confiscation order under this pre-Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) legislation cancels the amount outstanding in full.

Inadequacy

Under pre-POCA legislation the defendant can make an application to the High Court, for a fee of £350, to apply for a Certificate of Inadequacy (COI) to reduce the order amount where assets have not achieved the value assessed at the confiscation hearing.

POCA s24 Discharge

The Enforcement Authority can apply to the Crown court to reduce amounts up to £1,000 where they are satisfied the value of the asset has not met the value assessed at the confiscation hearing. The most likely cause for this is fluctuations in foreign currency.

POCA s25 Discharge

The Enforcement Authority can apply to the Crown court to discharge amounts up to £50, where there is little prospect of recovering the small amount outstanding or it is no longer cost- effective to do so.

Reconsideration of Available Assets

Under POCA legislation the defendant can make an application to the Crown court, to apply for a Variation Order to reduce the order amount where assets have not achieved the value assessed at the confiscation hearing. Unlike a pre-POCA COI application, no fee is payable.

Confiscation orders are one of the key mechanisms available to the Government to deprive criminals of the proceeds of their crimes. The value of the order imposed, which is often very high, is based on the criminal benefit attributed to the crime and may, therefore, exceed the value of realisable assets that are known to the Court at the time of imposition. Crucially, an outstanding order stops the criminal benefitting from the proceeds of crime and ensures that, if the assets are discovered in the future, they can be seized.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and other enforcement agencies take the issue of recovering criminal assets very seriously and are working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide.

Although, as the enforcement authority, HMCTS owns the debt, it is not always the lead enforcement agency. HMCTS tends to lead on the high volume, low

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value orders. Prosecution agencies, including the CPS and the Serious Fraud Office, lead on enforcement where they have put Restraint Orders on the defendant's property to protect the asset, or where the professional expertise of an Enforcement Receiver will be required to enforce the confiscation order.

All outstanding amounts are actively pursued using a range of enforcement tools open to us. A confiscation order is a lifetime order and only amounts up to £50 can be written off. Default sentences of up to 10 years in prison are activated for non payment. Serving the default sentence does not cancel the debt and we will continue to pursue the amount owed. Interest is added to the order balance outstanding at the rate of 8% per annum. The fact that interest accrues at such a high rate and amounts over £50 cannot be written off contributes to the increasing level of debt. At the end of December 2013, the total amount outstanding was £1.47 billion, of which £372 million was interest alone. At the end of December 2013, including interest £24 million is owed by defendant’s who are deceased and a further £86 million is owed by defendants who have been deported. Even for those that are deported we still try to actively pursue the defendant’s assets held abroad, but we rely on the co-operation of overseas enforcement agencies, which is often not forthcoming. The agencies responsible for enforcement are building better relationships with overseas authorities and engage specialist forensic teams to track down hidden assets.

The amount defendants repaid from their criminal activity across all agencies reached an all-time high during 2012-13, with a total of £133.1 million recovered. That represented a 7% increase on the £124.1 million recovered during 2011-12. The total amount recovered has increased for the last four consecutive years and once again we are on course to have another record- breaking year this financial year. For the 2013-14 financial year, at the end of December 2013, £102.8 million had been recovered, which is an increase of 2% on the £100.5 million that was collected up to December 2012. Since 2008-09, when £98.8 million was recovered, the amount collected from criminals has increased by 35%.

HMCTS is seeking a commercial partner to help increase collections, reduce enforcement costs and, importantly, ensure more criminals pay. A new national system has been implemented to manage the collection of fixed penalty notices, with all of the police forces having transferred to the new platform by June 2013.The continuing improvement the agencies are making, combined with our future plans, will ensure that more criminals pay and that taxpayers get better value for money.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the value of outstanding confiscation orders was on 31 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013; [185722]

(2) how many outstanding confiscation orders there were on 31 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013. [185723]

Mr Vara: Our accounts are based on financial years as opposed to calendar years; therefore the value and volume of outstanding confiscation orders as at 31 March, from 2010 through to 2013, are set out in the table.

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However, as at 31 December 2013, there were 20,634 outstanding confiscation orders totalling £1,466,924,522 including interest. Excluding interest the figure is £1,094,584,445.

During 2011-12, two successful appeals with a combined total of £184.7 million were reduced to a total of £32.3 million. This reduced the outstanding debt by £152.4 million.

Confiscation orders are one of the key mechanisms available to the Government to deprive criminals of the proceeds of their crimes. The value of the order imposed, which is often very high, is based on the criminal benefit attributed to the crime and may, therefore, exceed the value of realisable assets that are known to the Court at the time of imposition. Crucially, an outstanding order stops the criminal benefitting from the proceeds of crime and ensures that, if the assets are discovered in the future, they can be seized.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and other enforcement agencies take the issue of recovering criminal assets very seriously and are working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide.

Although, as the enforcement authority, HMCTS owns the debt, it is not always the lead enforcement agency. HMCTS tends to lead on the high-volume, low- value orders. Prosecution agencies, including the CPS and the Serious Fraud Office, lead on enforcement where they have put Restraint Orders on the defendant's property to protect the asset, or where the professional expertise of an Enforcement Receiver will be required to enforce the confiscation order.

All outstanding amounts are actively pursued using a range of enforcement tools open to us. A confiscation order is a lifetime order and only amounts up to £50 can be written off. Default sentences of up to 10 years in prison are activated for non payment. Serving the default sentence does not cancel the debt and we will continue to pursue the amount owed. Interest is added to the order balance outstanding at the rate of 8% per annum. The fact that interest accrues at such a high rate and amounts over £50 cannot be written off contributes to the increasing level of debt. At the end of December 2013, the total amount outstanding was £1.47 billion, of which £372 million was interest alone. At the end of December 2013, including interest £24 million is owed by defendants who are deceased and a further £86 million is owed by defendants who have been deported. Even for those that are deported we still try to actively pursue the defendants assets held abroad, but we rely on the co-operation of overseas enforcement agencies, which is often not forthcoming. The agencies responsible for enforcement are building better relationships with overseas authorities and engage specialist forensic teams to track down hidden assets.

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The amount defendants repaid from their criminal activity across all agencies reached an all-time high during 2012-13, with a total of £133.1 million recovered. That represented a 7% increase on the £124.1 million recovered during 2011-12. The total amount recovered has increased for the last four consecutive years and once again we are on course to have another record- breaking year this financial year. For the 2013-14 financial year, at the end of December 2013, £102.8 million had been recovered, which is an increase of 2% on the £100.5 million that was collected up to December 2012. Since 2008-09, when £98.8 million was recovered, the amount collected from criminals has increased by 35%.

HMCTS is seeking a commercial partner to help increase collections, reduce enforcement costs and, importantly, ensure more criminals pay. A new national system has been implemented to manage the collection of fixed penalty notices, with all of the police forces having transferred to the new platform by June 2013.The continuing improvement the agencies are making combined with our future plans will ensure that more criminals pay and that taxpayers get better value for money.

Crown Courts

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many defendants charged with each offence type were sent to the Crown Court for sentence by magistrates in each of the last five years; [191271]

(2) how many defendants (a) elected jury trial at the Crown Court for either way offences where magistrates had accepted jurisdiction and deemed the case to be suitable for summary trial and (b) were sent to the Crown Court for trial by magistrates declining jurisdiction over the case in each of the last three years. [191270]

Mr Vara: The answers to both questions are contained in the following tables:

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Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost was of an either way office case dealt with at the Crown Court where (a) a guilty plea was entered at the magistrates court and (b) a guilty plea was entered on the day of trial at the Crown Court in the latest period for which figures are available. [191272]

Mr Vara: There are a number of different ways costs of cases can be estimated, depending on how indirect costs are apportioned, resulting in a range of cost estimates for these cases. The latest period for which data are available is 2012-13 (up-rated to 2013-14 prices).

(a) The cost of an either way guilty plea entered at the magistrates court is estimated to be between £210 and £270 (to the nearest £10).

(b) A guilty plea entered on the day of a trial at the Crown Court would result in a cracked trial. The cost of a cracked trial in the Crown Court is estimated to be between £1,200 and £2,000 (to the nearest £100).

These figures do not include legal aid costs.

Sentencing Council Guidelines to the judiciary encourage early guilty pleas by setting out a scale of ‘credit' for a guilty plea to be applied that varies from a reduction of one third in any sentence for an early plea to 10% for a guilty plea entered at the point of trial.

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost was of a (a) jury trial at the Crown Court for (i) either way offences sent by magistrates where their sentencing powers were not deemed sufficient, (ii) either way offences where the defendant has chosen to elect jury trial and (iii) indictable only offences and (b) trial in a magistrates

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court for (i) summary only offences and (ii) either way offences in the latest period for which figures are available. [191282]

Mr Vara: The information requested is not currently available in full. An analysis of criminal court costs is based on average timings from Activity Based Costing allocations models. Some of the timings in the models are based on a timing survey, conducted in a representative sample of courts. Undertaking a new survey to support an analysis of costs in a different way from that currently available could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.

Some of the information is available. There are a number of different ways costs of cases can be estimated, depending on how indirect costs are apportioned. Estimates shown are based on 2012-13 costs (up-rated to 2013-14 prices).

Costs at the Crown Court are analysed by offence type (criminal damage, burglary, drug offences etc.) rather than by how the offence has come to be heard in the Crown Court. Estimates are based on average trial lengths—individual trials for any given case may be longer or shorter. The lower and upper trial cost estimates shown are the weighted average of upper and lower estimates for all either way or indictable offence types.

Summary offences in the magistrates court have been split into motoring and non-motoring offence types.

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Fines

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the total amount is of fines issued by the courts between 2010 and 2013 which remain uncollected; [185483]

(2) what the total amount is of fines (a) issued by the courts and (b) uncollected in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013; [185484]

(3) what the value was of fines that were (a) issued and (b) uncollected in each of the last four years. [186157]

Mr Vara: The value of fines imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding for the periods from April 2011 onwards are set out in the following table:

The values above refer only to fines and not any other elements of financial impositions such as prosecutor costs, compensation and victim surcharge. Where financial impositions are paid by instalments, the fine element is the last part to be paid off after compensation, victim surcharge and prosecutor costs. The values cancelled can relate to legal or administrative cancellations. The value outstanding will include amounts remaining on accounts that are being paid by instalments or were not due for payment by the end of the period specified.

It is not possible to provide data in this format for any period prior to April 2011 as new performance management information was introduced at that time. It is not possible to identify how much of the amounts imposed in 2011 or 2012 remained outstanding by the end of September 2013 (latest published data period) as data are only available for 18 months after the date imposed—after that it is not possible to extract the amount outstanding for a specific period from the total balance outstanding.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

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Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many fines have been (a) issued by courts and (b) collected in 2013-14 to date. [185878]

Mr Vara: For the financial year to date, 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2013 (latest published data), 614,693 financial imposition accounts were opened. Of those accounts opened in that period, 182,183 accounts were closed. A further 199,623 accounts were compliant with their payment terms.

Financial impositions include fines imposed in the magistrates and Crown Courts, costs orders, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and unpaid fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder which are registered as fines for enforcement. The numbers of accounts closed is the position as at the end of September 2013 and those accounts outstanding could now have been closed or collected.. Accounts that are closed are accounts with a zero balance which could have been by payment or administrative or legal cancellation.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average fine was for people found guilty of non-payment of (a) a television licence, (b) vehicle excise duty and (c) council tax in each of the last four years. [194112]

Mr Vara: The average amount of the number of fines issued to defendants proceeded against in magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for installing or using a television receiver without the appropriate licence, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012, can be viewed in Table 1.

The average amount of the number of fines issued to defendants proceeded against in magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for keeping a motor vehicle on the highway without a current vehicle excise licence, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012, can be viewed in Table 2

Failure to pay council tax is not a criminal offence so cannot be dealt with by a fine.

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Fines: Surcharges

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much in victim surcharge has been imposed by adult courts since October 2012; and how much of that figure has been collected to date. [191969]

Mr Vara: The amount of victim surcharge imposed and collected from October 2012 to September 2013 (latest published period) is set out as follows:

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The balance of the amount imposed that is remaining at the end of the period will include amounts that are being paid by instalments or were not due for payment by that time. The closer to the point of imposition, the greater will be the proportion that remains outstanding, as many offenders will be paying by instalments.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Total collection reached an all time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

Judicial Review

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2013, Official Report, column 772W, on Judicial Review, what further assessment has been made of the reasons for the increase in the number of applications for judicial review. [193293]

Mr Vara: The use of judicial review more than tripled between 2000 and 2013, from around 4,300 applications to around 15,700. The increase has been driven mainly by immigration and asylum cases but civil judicial reviews have increased by around 27% over the same period, from 1,745 in 2000 to 2,210 in 2013.

In 2012 only around 1,400 of 7,600 applications considered for permission, including at an oral renewal, were granted permission to proceed to a final hearing.

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Between 1 October 2012 and 31 December 2013 around 30% of judicial reviews which reached the permission stage or oral renewal were found to be totally without merit.

The Government are determined to improve the judicial review process. The rationale for the Government's reforms is set out in ‘Judicial review: further proposals for reform—the Government response':

https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review

The Government are determined to improve the judicial review process so that it is not open to abuse and arguable cases can proceed quickly to final resolution.

The Government are clear that judicial review is, and will remain, an important means to ensure the actions of Government and other bodies are lawful.

Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his article published in the Daily Mail on 6 September 2013, what the evidential basis was for his statement that countless left-wing campaigners are using the judicial review system as a promotional tool. [193822]

Mr Vara: The rationale for the Government's reforms is set out in ‘Judicial review: further proposals for reform—the Government response':

https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review

The Government are determined to improve the judicial review process so that it is not open to abuse and arguable cases can proceed quickly to final resolution.

Most of the Government's reforms to judicial review are being taken forward through the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, which will be subject to the full and proper scrutiny of Parliament.

Magistrates' Courts: Greater Manchester

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was levied in fines by each magistrates court in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years; what proportion of such fines were written off by each court; and what proportion of such fines were collected. [192142]

Mr Vara: It is not possible to identify the amounts imposed, written off and collected for individual magistrates courts as data on fines imposed are recorded by local accounting divisions. The only way data for individual courts could be obtained is to carry out a manual search of all fine accounts.

The total amounts imposed, written off and collected in the Greater Manchester accounting division are set out as follows.

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The amounts above include all elements of financial impositions (excluding confiscation orders): fines, costs, compensation and victim surcharge. The amounts cancelled or collected in a particular year can relate to impositions from that year or any previous year.

Financial penalties are only administratively cancelled after all attempts to collect the amount outstanding have been made, and in accordance with strict cancellation criteria. These penalties can be written back on to the system if more information is found—for instance, a new address for the offender.

Legal cancellations can be applied after the case has been reconsidered by a judge or magistrate. Typically, legal cancellations are used where a case has been re-opened and the defendant has been found not guilty, following the presentation of additional information. Legal cancellations can be full or partial remittances of financial penalties.

The following table sets out how much of the value imposed in Greater Manchester in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 financial years was collected or cancelled by the end of the same financial year in which it was imposed. These data are only available from April 2011 onwards.

The amounts above again include all elements of financial impositions. The balance amount imposed that is remaining at the end of the financial year will include amounts that were being paid by instalments or were not due for payment by that time.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Total collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) across HMCTS was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

Prison Service

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how much was spent on (a) travel, (b) accommodation and (c) subsistence costs for detached duty cover for staff in the Prison Service in each month since September 2013; [190148]

(2) which prisons have reported staff shortages that required staff to be called in from another prison in each month since September 2013; [190151]

(3) how many staff in the Prison Service have been on detached duty in each month since September 2013. [190153]

Jeremy Wright: Using centrally held financial records it is not possible to disaggregate the costs of detached duty from other expenses claimed by staff without incurring disproportionate cost.

In order to increase efficiency of deployment, a nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since October 2013. The following list contains details of all establishments that have received officers on detached duty and the table shows the average weekly provision of staff deployed on detached duty each month.

The deployment of prison officers between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. Deployment outside of the nationally co-ordinated scheme which began in October is not recorded centrally. For this reason, information on the number of establishments and staff using detached duty prior to 21 October 2013 is not available.

Prisons receiving staff on detached duty 21 October to 31 December 2013

21 to 31 October 2013

Cookham Wood

The Mount

Nottingham

Feltham

Isis

Moorland

Lindholme

November 2013

Littlehey

Wayland

Norwich

Cookham Wood

The Mount

Portland

Bristol

Guys Marsh

Feltham

Isis

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Moorland

Lindholme

Earlstoke

Leyhill

Pentonville

Spring Hill

December 2013

Wayland

Cookham Wood

Norwich

Elmley

Bedford

The Mount

Portland

Bristol

Guys Marsh

Swaleside

Leyhill

Feltham

Moorland

Lindholme

Onley

Werrington

Littlehey

Pentonville

Aylesbury

Leicester

Rochester

Earlstoke

Bullingdon

Glen Parva

Isle of Wight

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Prison Service: North East

Mrs Lewell-Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which (a) prisons and (b) young offender institutions in the north-east have had members of staff take detached duty since 2010. [192683]

Jeremy Wright: A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Staff from the following public sector prisons and young offender institutions in the north-east have been on detached duty between 21 October 2013 and 31 December 2013: Deerbolt, Durham, Holme House, Kirklevington Grange, Low Newton and Northumberland.

The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. Deployment outside of the nationally co-ordinated scheme which began in October is not recorded centrally. For this reason, information on the number of establishments and staff using detached duty prior to 21 October 2013 is not available.

Mrs Lewell-Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff of each (a) prison and (b) young offender institutions in the north-east were made redundant in each year since 2010. [192684]

Jeremy Wright: No staff were made redundant in any public sector prison or young offender institution in the north-east between 2010 and 2013.

Security

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many breaches of security have been reported at (a) HM Courts Service, (b) the Land Registry, (c) the National Offender Management Service, (d) the National Archives, (e) the Office of the Public Guardian and (f) the Tribunals Service in each year since May 2010; and what procedures each agency follows when a breach of security involves the disclosure of personal data. [192730]

Mr Vara: The following table provides the number of centrally recorded security incidents (breaches of security resulting in actual or potential harm) that have occurred during each financial year since 1 April 2010.

Responsibility for HM Land Registry was transferred to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2011 and therefore the Ministry of Justice does not hold this information.

The figures include a wide range of types of incident, including loss of IT equipment (which would usually be password protected or encrypted to protect the information); verbal abuse and threats to court staff, judiciary and members of the public; and a wide variety of incidents in prisons.

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The Department and its agencies apply robust incident management processes, including a requirement for staff to report breaches resulting in potential harm/loss to assets (information, people, buildings and equipment).

When a security incident involving the disclosure of personal data is identified, prompt action is taken locally to limit harm and residual action is then taken to seek to alleviate further recurrence.

Sentencing

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) men and (b) women were serving custodial sentences for non-payment of (i) a television licence, (ii) vehicle excise duty and (iii) council tax on 1 March 2014. [194101]

Jeremy Wright: The offences of using a TV receiver without a valid licence and of failure to hold a valid vehicle excise duty licence (tax disc) are not punishable by imprisonment, so offenders cannot be sentenced to custody for these offences. Failing to pay council tax is not a criminal offence. Accordingly, there were no men or women serving custodial sentences on 1 March 2014 for non-payment of a TV licence, vehicle excise duty or council tax.

Translation Services

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much HM Courts and Tribunal Service spent on interpreters in 2011, 2012 and 2013; how much was spent on interpreting each language in those years; and how much was paid by defendants towards these costs. [185824]

Mr Vara: The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that the hon. Member has requested. Although we cannot provide all the data on spend for the periods requested, we can provide the annual spend for interpreters sourced through the Capita-TI Contract for Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service as follows:

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Off-contract bookings made by HMCTS are outside of these spend figures. The number of bookings made off-contract has substantially decreased since the start of 2012, with those bookings moving on to the Capita TI contract. This move from off-contract to Capita TI is reflected in the changing year-on-year contract spend.

Spend for 2012 is based on an 11-month period as the contract did not go live until 30 January 2012. Expenditure has also increased in the second year of contract due to changes made to the contract in May 2013 and an estimated 20% increase on volume. £15 million was saved in year one of the contract.

In this instance, to provide the requested information on total annual spend and spend by language would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.00 or 4½ working days.

In order to provide the information we would be required to obtain a number of large reports from electronic databases. The relevant data must then be manually extracted and collated. It would also require comparison against additional financial data before analysis. We estimate that this process for the spend data would take approximately six working days given the volume of data involved.

Defendants in criminal cases do not contribute towards the costs of interpreters that are provided by HMCTS. Charges for HMCTS provided interpreters in civil, family and tribunal cases are not passed directly to parties, although the costs may be recovered from court and tribunal fees in the jurisdictions where they apply.

Unpaid Fines

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the total value was of fines remaining uncollected on 31 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013. [186102]

Mr Vara: The value of fines imposed, collected, cancelled and outstanding for the periods from April 2011 onwards are set as follows.

The values above only refer to fines and not any other elements of financial impositions such as prosecutor costs, compensation and victim surcharge. Where financial impositions are paid by instalments the fine element is the last part to be paid off after compensation, victim surcharge and prosecutor costs. The values cancelled can relate to legal or administrative cancellations. The value outstanding will include amounts remaining on accounts that are being paid by instalments or were not due for payment by the end of the period specified.

It is not possible to provide data in this format for any period prior to April 2011 as new performance management information was introduced at that time. It is not possible to identify how much of the amounts imposed in 2011 or 2012 remained outstanding by the end of September 2013 (latest published data period) as

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data are only available for 18 months after the date imposed—after that it is not possible to extract the amount outstanding for a specific period from the total balance outstanding.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the value is of outstanding fines that were written off in each of the last four years; [186159]

(2) how many outstanding fines were written off in each of the last four years. [186160]

Mr Vara: The amounts of financial impositions administratively cancelled and legally cancelled in each year since 2009-10 are set out in the following table:

The number of financial impositions administratively cancelled and legally cancelled in each year since 2011-12 are set out in the following table. Data on the number of financial impositions cancelled are not available prior to 2011-12.

It is not possible to identify the amounts or numbers written off for just the fine element. The amounts above therefore include all elements of financial penalties (excluding confiscation orders): fines, costs, compensation and victim surcharge. The amounts cancelled in a particular year can relate to impositions from that year or any previous year.

Financial penalties are only administratively cancelled after all attempts to collect the amount outstanding have been made, and in accordance with strict cancellation

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criteria. These penalties can be written back on to the system if more information is found—for instance, a new address for the offender.

Legal cancellations can be applied after the case has been reconsidered by a judge or magistrate. Typically, legal cancellations are used where a case has been re-opened and the defendant has been found not guilty, following the presentation of additional information. Legal cancellations can be full or partial remittances of financial penalties.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has carried out a fundamental review of financial penalty accounts, actively targeting accounts to achieve compliance at the earliest point, as well as tackling old accounts, and administratively cancelling them where there is no realistic chance of collection because they do not have enough information to trace the debtors. This explains the increase in the value of administrative cancellations seen in the figures.

This enabled HMCTS to focus resources on increasing collections on accounts which can be enforced, resulting in the record high level of collection in 2012-13.

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many outstanding fines remained uncollected on 31 December in each of the last four years. [186162]

Mr Vara: Data on the total number of financial imposition accounts outstanding has been available only since November 2012, so it is not possible to say how many accounts remained outstanding at the end of December for each of the last four years. The available data are set out in the following table:

The numbers above relate to accounts which include fines, prosecutor costs, compensation and victim surcharge. The number of outstanding accounts includes those which are being paid by instalments or are not yet due for payment.

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HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) takes the issue of financial penalty enforcement very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. HMCTS actively pursues all outstanding impositions until certain they cannot be collected. Collection reached an all-time high at the end of 2012-13 and collection has continued to rise in this financial year. At the end of September 2013 total value of collection (all imposition types excluding confiscation orders) was higher than the same point in the previous year and the outstanding balance had reduced since the start of the financial year. On average over the last 12 months 69% of accounts have been either closed or are compliant with payment terms by 12 months after imposition.

HMCTS is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services. This will bring the necessary investment and innovation to significantly improve the collection of criminal financial penalties and reduce the cost of the service to the taxpayer.