Claim: A disproportionate number of women have ended up in prison for failing to pay their TV licence fee.
Fact-check: Do a disproportionate number of women end up in prison for failing to pay TV licences? - Full Fact
Verdict: you cannot be sent to prison for failing to pay a tv licence fee, only for failing to pay a fine in connection with a conviction for not paying the fee—and the latest available figures for england and wales show no one was jailed for this in 2020 or 2021. women are more likely than men to be convicted of not paying the fee, but the number of men jailed since 1995 after failing to pay fines is twice the number of women.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tony Thompson
Date published: 2022-08-04T00:00:00