Cherie Blair has highlighted 'absurd' figures showing that one third of all female criminal convictions in the UK are for not paying the TV licence fee.
However, one figure that has not changed so much over time is the proportion of women convicted for licence fee offences compared to men - which was 71 per cent women in 2016, and 74 per cent women in 2023. While nearly 1,000 people a week are prosecuted for licence fee evasion, no one can be sent to prison for the offence - although they could be jailed for failing to pay the resulting fine.
Read More BBC 'covert surveillance' operations and TV detection equipment to catch licence fee evaders 'struggles to keep up' with technological changes Looking at 2023, there were 22,817 convictions for licence fee evasion, which was 10 per cent of the total 234,615 convictions for women across all offences.
Mrs Blair, the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, also said there should be a ban on pregnant women being sent to prison.
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