Poll tax figures - millions before the courts
01 January 1991
Poll tax figures - millions before the courts
artdoc February=1992
In the fifteen month period 1 April 1990 to 30 June 1991
magistrates courts made liability orders for the poll tax against
3,960,111 people. By the end of September 1991 the figures over
the same period had risen to 5,700,000 orders. 34 million people
are liable for the annual poll tax.
Further figures compiled by Dave Nellist MP showed that between
April 1990 and the end of September 1991 8 million summonses were
issued. 4.2 million liability hearings took place without
defendants present. The total estimated cost in magistrate
courts' time was Ã5.1 million. Ninety people had been sent to
prison, a third of whom were unemployed.
Independent, 18.11.91; Hansard, written answer, 17.11.91.
Statewatch, Volume 2 no 1, January/February 1992