HC Deb 15 December 1975 vol 902 cc440-1W
Mr. Lawrence

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community service units are now in operation throughout England and Wales; and if he will list their locations.

Dr. Summerskill

Arrangements for offenders to carry out work under community service orders now exist in the whole or part of 49 of the 56 probation areas in England and Wales, as follows:

Whole area

  • Berkshire.
  • Cheshire.
  • Cleveland.
  • Cumbria.
  • Durham
  • Kent.
  • Leicestershire.
  • Inner London.
  • South-West London.
  • Merseyside.
  • Nottinghamshire.
  • Salop.
  • Surrey.
  • South Yorkshire.
  • South Glamorgan.

Part area

  • Avon.
  • Bedfordshire.
  • Buckinghamshire.
  • Cambridgeshire.
  • Derbyshire.
  • Devon.
  • Dorset.
  • Essex.
  • Gloucestershire.
  • Hampshire.
  • Hereford and Worcester.
  • Hertfordshire.
  • Lancashire.
  • Lincolnshire.
  • North-East London.
  • South-East London.
  • Greater Manchester.
  • Middlesex.
  • Norfolk.
  • Northamptonshire.
  • Northumbria.
  • Oxfordshire.
  • Somerset.
  • Staffordshire.
  • Suffolk.
  • East Sussex.
  • West Sussex.
  • Warwickshire.
  • Wiltshire.
  • West Yorkshire.
  • North Yorkshire.
  • Gwent.
  • North Wales.
  • Mid-Glamorgan.