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Proceeding contribution from Martin Salter (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 December 2006. It occurred during Debate on bill on Offender Management Bill.


Offender Management Bill

Does the Home Secretary accept that it is not what is written in Polly Toynbee’s column that worries us, but the track record of some of the private security companies that are seeking to take over parts of the probation service? That is what is worrying Labour Members and Members who are traditionally supportive of the Home Office team. Is he happy to see the American firm Kalyx, whose appalling management of Harmondsworth detention centre has been roundly condemned by Her Majesty’s inspector of prisons, or Group 4, which has consistently failed to tag dangerous offenders properly, taking over part of the management of offenders in the community?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
454 c593-4 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Contracts Accountability Charities Education Drugs Offenders Private sector Protection Prisoners Prisons Public sector Staff Probation Monopolies Prisoner escorts Rehabilitation Voluntary organisations Training Safety Reoffenders Probation boards
Legislation
Offender Management Bill 2006-07
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk