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Magistrates' Courts: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of magistrates' court sentences were fines in each of the last five financial years.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
20 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of magistrates' court sentences were fines in each of the last five financial years.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions at criminal courts in England and Wales between 2010 and June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: C...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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