HC Deb 20 May 1980 vol 985 c103W
Mr. Grylls

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were sentenced to community service orders in 1978 and 1979 in (a) Greater London and (b) England and Wales.

Mr. Brittan

The number of persons given community service orders in 1978 and the first half of 1979 is published by probation and after-care area in table 6 of " Statistics on Community Service Orders "—Home Office Statistical Bulletin, issue 3/80. Figures for the whole of 1979 are not yet available.

Mr. Grylls

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people completed community service orders in 1978 and 1979 in (a) Greater London and (b) England and Wales.

Mr. Brittan

Information on the number of persons completing community service orders is not readily available. The number of community service orders terminated in 1978 by the completion of the specified number hours of work was (a) 1,946 in Greater London and (b) 11,146 in England and Wales. Figures for the whole of 1979 are not yet available.

Mr. Grylls

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people served custodial sentences for non-completion of community service orders in 1979 and 1980 in (a) Greater London and (b) England and Wales.

Mr. Brittan

Information in the form requested is not available. The information available relates to the number of persons sentenced in England and Wales in 1978 to a custodial sentence following breach of a community service order and is published annually in " Criminal Statistics, England and Wales "—table 6–30 of the 1978 volume, Cmnd. 7670. Separate information for Greater London could be obtained only at disproportionate cost; information for 1979 and 1980 is not yet available.