Mr. Vivian Geiran:

The number of people subject to community service orders decreased significantly a number of years back. As a result of a number of initiatives, including new legislation and a value for money review of community service, there was a significant increase in the number of people on community service. The number peaked in 2011. The numbers on community service have dropped since then but there are several reasons for that. The number of people in prison has also gone down. Since that time, there have been a number of other legislative provisions introduced for different types of sanctions. The 2006 Criminal Justice Act introduced, on a legislative basis, the possibility of fully suspended prison sentences, with or without supervision, and also part-suspended sentences of which there has been an increase. I referred in my presentation to the fact we have an increasing number of people that we supervise on post-release supervision. I guess that some of those have displaced some of the community service orders.