§ 75. Mr. Awberyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to discover a system whereby persons guilty of vandalism and other forms of destruction can be usefully employed as an alternative to imprisonment, until they have earned sufficient money to pay for the damage committed.
§ Mr. BrookeThe courts already have limited powers to order payment of compensation by offenders who remain at liberty. The extension of the principle of reparation raises difficult questions which, as the White Paper on Penal Practice in a Changing Society (Cmnd. 645) pointed out, must really be considered in the context of a general re-examination of penal policy.