Sentencing

(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list all the possible requirements that can be attached to a community order or a suspended sentence order by sentencers (a) in all courts and (b) in certain courts as part of a trial or pilot scheme.


Answered by
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Andrew Selous
This question was answered on 16th July 2015

The following community requirements are currently available in all courts when imposing a community order or a suspended sentence order:

· an unpaid work requirement

· a rehabilitation activity requirement

· a programme requirement

· a prohibited activity requirement

· a curfew requirement

· an exclusion requirement

· a residence requirement

· a foreign travel prohibition requirement

· a mental health treatment requirement

· a drug rehabilitation requirement

· an alcohol treatment requirement, and,

· where the offender is aged under 25, an attendance centre requirement.

Under the provisions of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 the rehabilitation activity requirement replaced the previous activity and supervision requirements, which the courts may still impose when sentencing for offences committed before 1 February 2015.

An alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement is currently being piloted in the south London local justice area, which covers Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark and Sutton, and is currently planned to last until 31 January 2016.

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