HC Deb 01 November 1990 vol 178 c738W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for the latest available year the number of income support claimants sent to prison for failure to pay a court fine.

Mrs. Rumbold

While no statistics on the financial status of prisoners are recorded centrally, such information as is available suggests that perhaps three-quarters of those detained for failure to pay a court fine were in receipt of income support.