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Television Licence Fee (Evasion)

Volume 184: debated on Monday 28 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women were committed to remand centres by individual name in 1989 and 1990 for the non-payment of fines for evasion of the television licence fee, detailing in each case the amount of the fine, the length of imprisonment and whether other offences of a similar or different nature were considered at the same time; and whether he will estimate the cost to public funds of imprisonment in each year.

The information requested is riot available centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.