§ Mr. Nelsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will list against all probation areas the 643W number of community service orders made in the last 12 months for which figures are available, and the average number of hours worked per week on such orders in each area.
§ Mr. JohnReturns made by the Probation Service for the period 1st April 1976 to 31st March 1977, the latest 12 months for which figures are available, show the number of persons given community service orders—some of whom had more than one orderߞas follows:
Avon 296 Bedfordshire 93 Berkshirre 130 Buckinghamshire 135 Cambridgeshire 71 Cheshire 352 Cleveland 322 Cumbria 100 Derbyshire 42 Devon 177 Dorset 167 Durham 145 Essex 330 Gloucestershire 92 Hampshire 112 Hertford and Worcester 90 Hertfordshire 72 Humberside 114 Kent 550 Lancashire 118 Leicestershire 152 Lincolnshire 143 Inner London 828 North-East London 216 South-East London 163 South-West London 144 Middlesex 416 Greater Manchester 243 Merseyside 730 Norfolk 50 Northamptonshire 139 Northumbria 220 Nottinghamshire 492 Oxfordshire 112 Salop 130 Somerset 158 Staffordshire 263 Suffolk 81 Surrey 128 East Sussex 82 West Sussex 72 Warwickshire 72 West Midlands 104 Wiltshire 101 North Yorkshire 79 South Yorkshire 399 West Yorkshire 411 Gwent 65 North Wales 99 Powys 2 South Glamorgan 217 Mid Glamorgan 83 West Glamorgan 100 Three areas, Cornwall, Dyfed and the City of London, did not have community service arrangements in the period.
The other information requested is not available.
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§ Mr. Nelsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community service orders were made in the last 12 months for which figures are available and in each of the previous five years; and, of these, how many were made in magistrates' courts and in Crown courts, respectively.
§ Mr. JohnThe latest available figures are for 1976 and are given in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1976", page 58. Figures for previous years are given in previous issues of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—for 1975 on page 42, for 1974 on pages 72 and 164 and for 1973 on pages 64 and 146.
§ Mr. Nelsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were dealt with for failing to comply with the terms of community service orders in the last 12 months for which figures are available and in each of the previous five years; and, of these, how many had failed to comply by committing a fresh offence.
§ Mr. JohnThe available information is as follows. Returns made by the Probation Service indicate that 638 community service orders were revoked under Section 16 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 for breach of requirements in the period 1st April 1976 to 31st March 1977 and 153 in the previous 12 months. In addition, 433 orders were revoked under Section 17 of the Act in the period 1st April 1976 to 31st March 1977 following the imposition of a custodial sentence for a further offence, and 208 in the previous 12 months.