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Mrs. Mahon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men and women were imprisoned for non-payment of fines for (a) not having television licences and (b) other offences involving fines in the last two years for which figures are available.
Mr. Peter Lloyd
The available information is for 1991. A total of 258 males and 136 females were received into prison service establishments in England and Wales for defaulting on a fine after conviction for operating a television without a licence; and 17,740 males and 840 females were received for fine default following other offences.