§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those areas of England and Wales where 218W arrangements are established for the operation of community service orders.
§ Dr. SummerskillI refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to a Question by the hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence) on 15th December 1975—[Vol. 902, c. 441.] On 1st April 1976, arrangements for offenders to carry out work under community service orders will be introduced for the first time in parts of the West Midlands and Humberside probation areas and in the whole of the West Glamorgan probation area. From the same date, there will be some extensions of existing schemes, one result of which will be that arrangements will exist throughout the whole of the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Somerset probation areas.