Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2011
17 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
Community Payback Orders
General Questions
Can the cabinet secretary justify the £10,000 expense to the taxpayer of keeping the individual who breached the first community payback order in prison due to his refusal to conform to the expectations of the CPO? What will he do if others who are issued with community payback orders exhibit the same pattern of conduct?
In the same item of business
Mr Frank McAveety (Glasgow Shettleston) (Lab)
Lab
6. To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on how community payback orders are working. (S3O-13350)
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice (Kenny MacAskill)
SNP
The provisions for the community payback order have been in force for only a little over a month. The significant work that went into planning and preparing ...
Mr McAveety
Lab
Can the cabinet secretary justify the £10,000 expense to the taxpayer of keeping the individual who breached the first community payback order in prison due ...
Kenny MacAskill
SNP
I do not interfere in the independence of the judiciary, but I fully support any action that a sheriff feels it is necessary to take. If that is sending some...