Community Sentences

Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of (a) men and (b) women serving community sentences in the last two years breached the terms of their sentence. [93303]

The information requested for England and Wales for the years 2000 and 2001 is contained in the table.Data for 2002 is not yet available.

Offenders whose breaches¹ of original community sentence or order were proved to the satisfaction of the court by type of sentence or order breached and the proportion breaching original orders—England and Wales
Numbers and percentages
			2000			2001
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Number of offenders sentenced
Community rehabilitation order²	44,271	12,188	56,459	46,295	12,022	58,497
Supervision order	9,711	1,845	11,556	9,330	1,753	11,083
Community punishment order²	44,517	5,466	49,983	44,052	5,712	49,764
Attendance centre order	6,459	582	7,041	5,364	460	5,824
Community punishment and rehabilitation order²	17,300	1,941	19,241	13,199	1,463	14,662
Curfew order	2,325	272	2,597	3,467	396	3,863
Reparation order	3,382	602	3,984	6,746	1,229	7,975
Action plan order	3,678	678	4,356	7,229	1,421	8,650
Drug treatment and testing order	270	51	321	3,566	663	4,229
Total community sentences	131,913	23,625	155,538	139,878	25,119	164,997
Offenders breaching orders as a percentage of offenders sentenced ³
Community rehabilitation order²	24	23	23	23	23	23
Supervision order	7	7	7	10	9	10
Community punishment order²	36	26	35	33	24	32
Attendance centre order	18	20	19	15	20	15
Community punishment and rehabilitation order²	36	31	35	41	37	41
Curfew order	22	28	23	23	26	24
Reparation order	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—
Action plan order	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—
Drug treatment and testing order	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—	⁴—
Total community sentences	28	23	27	28	23	27
¹ Breaches cover the commission of further offences or the breaking of other conditions laid down in the orders. Examples of such "other conditions" include, among other things: Requirements as to residence; to participate in or refrain from specified activities; attendance at probation centre; to undergo treatment for medical condition or drug/alcohol dependency.
² New names for these community sentences came into force in April 2001. Community rehabilitation order was previously probation order, community punishment order was previously community service order and community punishment and rehabilitation order was previously combination order.
³ An approximation to the breach rate because offenders breaching in one year may have been given the sentence or order in an earlier year. The average of the number of sentences for the year indicated and in the previous year has been used as the denominator to provide a better estimate.							⁴ not available. (These orders have not been available for a sufficient length of time for a breach rate to be calculated. Such orders have also been excluded from the breach rate for 'Total Community Sentences').

Volume 400: debated on Wednesday 26 February 2003