§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will extend the number of areas within which magistrates' courts have jurisdiction to make community service orders.
§ Dr. SummerskillWe have recently approved the introduction, by the probation and after-care committees concerned, of arrangements for offenders to carry out work under community service orders, in a number of additional petty sessions areas as from 1st December 1975244W From that date, such arrangements will exist in the whole or part of 49 of the 56 probation areas in England and Wales. Additional arrangements will be introduced as the resources of probation and after-care committees permit.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department of those cases in which magistrates are of the opinion that a community service order would be apropriate, how many and what percentage did the offender refuse his consent to the making thereof.
§ Dr. SummerskillI regret that the information is not readily available.