HC Deb 23 March 2004 vol 419 cc715-6W
Mr. Key

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what percentage of fines imposed have been paid in(a) Salisbury magistrates court and (b) Salisbury Crown court in the past 12 months. [162447]

Mr. Leslie

Magistrates Courts Committees (MCCs) have a responsibility for the collection of a range of debts imposed by both the magistrates courts and the Crown court.

Data are collected centrally at a MCC level, rather than at individual court level. The Wiltshire MCC accounting system is therefore unable to separately identify the percentage of fines paid in Salisbury magistrates court or imposed by the Crown court.

For 2003–04 Wiltshire MCCs fines payment rate for the year to date at the end of January was 94 per cent.