HC Deb 14 June 1977 vol 933 c122W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been imprisoned in the Merseyside area following the withdrawal of a community service order.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

It is not possible to know how many people sentenced to imprisonment by courts in the Merseyside area would have been made subject to a community service order if that alternative had been available to them at the time.