Means Warrants: Greater London
Justice
Written answers and statements, 16 October 2009
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent assessment is of the monetary value of means warrants written off in Greater London in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
The total values of financial penalties administratively cancelled by the HMCS London area in the last five years are shown in the table.
| Amount administratively cancelled (£) | |
| 2008-09 | 21,154,762.19 |
| 2007-08 | 14,299,628.59 |
| 2006-07 | 13,157,208.52 |
| 2005-06 | 573,379.42 |
| 2004-05 | 1,038,403.34 |
The amount shown equates to all administratively cancelled financial penalties not just the monetary value of means warrants which have been written off. The Department is unable to provide data solely relating to means warrants without incurring disproportionate costs.