§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has undertaken on the degree of knowledge and awareness among the judiciary about community penalties and their effectiveness; and if he will make a statement. [18636]
§ Ms QuinHome Office Research Study 144, "Measuring the Satisfaction of Courts with the Probation Service", published in 1995, reported that 70 per cent. of the judges questioned thought that the probation service kept them very well or quite well informed about its work; 37 per cent. considered the quality of supervision for probation orders to be very good or quite good; and 45 per cent. were very satisfied or quite satisfied with current arrangements for enforcing probation orders.
Further relevant information will feature next year in the Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate's evaluation of the community sentence demonstration projects in Teesside and Shropshire.