Restraint and Confiscation Orders

HC Deb 27 February 1996 vol 272 cc518-9W

Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many restraint and confiscation orders have been obtained in each of the last three years; and for what amounts. [17145]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The number of restraint and confiscation orders obtained in the past three years are as undernoted at¹.

Restraint orders, by their nature, cover all the realisable property of an accused person whether specifically detailed in the restraint order or not and therefore it follows that individual amounts cannot be determined. The amounts fixed by the court in individual confiscation orders and totals for each year are undernoted at².

Undernote1 Calendar Year	Number of Restraint Orders	Numbers of Confiscation Orders
1993	1	3
1994	11	3
1995	28	9

Undernote (2) Calender Year	Individual values of confiscation orders
	£
1993	98,966
	90,000
	70,000
	258,966
1994	1,715.65
	5,615
	9,024
	16,345.65
1995	41,865
	32,396
	16,665
	20,000
	7,000
	17,000
	55,000
	38,975
	35,000
	263,901