Community Service Orders

HC Deb 19 January 1978 vol 942 c317W

Mr. Robin F. Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many community service orders have been enforced in Scotland; and in what regions.

Mr. McElhone

Courts in Scotland have no powers at present to make community service orders, but experiments have recently been initiated in certain areas where probation orders, with community work as a condition, may be made by courts with the consent of offenders. The number of such orders made during the last quarter of 1977 was as follows:

Grampian	6
Lothian	1
Tayside	9
Total	16

A similar scheme in Strathclyde Region is expected to start shortly.