§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hon. Members have written to him about the new unit fines system.
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Refuals1 of after-entry applications to vary leave, solely on grounds of lack of accommodation, or maintenance or both accommodation and maintenance, by husbands, wives and fiancés2, 1986 to 1992 (January to September)3. United Kingdom Number of Persons Category of Refusal 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 19923 Spouses Refusals on grounds of accommodation4 Husbands 13 9 5 8 8 1 3 Wives 1 — 2 4 1 8 2 Refusals on grounds of maintenance4 Husbands 24 8 8 2 3 3 1 Wives 6 4 4 1 3 3 6 Refusals on grounds of maintenance and accommodation Husbands 31 13 12 5 3 5 3 Wives 8 7 4 1 1 3 3 Refusal of settlement5 Husbands 17 14 20 24 30 37 23 Wives — — 2 14 33 48 Fiances Refusals on grounds of maintenance and accommodation Male fiancés 1 1 3 1 3 — 1 Female fiancés 2 — — 1 1 — 2
§ Mr. JackThe provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 relating to unit fines were implemented on 1 October 1992. Since that date some 50 right hon. and hon. Members have written about the sentencing provisions of the Act. Thirty seven of these letters were concerned either in whole or in part with the unit fines system.