Schedule 11
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
2:15 pm
David Burrowes (Shadow Minister, Justice; Enfield, Southgate, Conservative)
I acknowledge that there has been an improvement in the enforcement of fines, but I am not sure if the figure of 90 per cent. applies to youth court enforcement and the level of success in that area. The other problem with those figures is that they do not include compensation orders and the amount of enforcement that takes place in relation to that. The jury is still out on the success of enforcement.
I do not wish to continue further. Perhaps it would be useful if the Minister reflected in particular on the order-making powers of the Secretary of State, and the need for us to see at an early stage the type of offences that the Secretary of State feels would warrant the attachment of a financial penalty. However, I do not wish to press the amendment to a Division. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.