Proceeding contribution from Austin Mitchell (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 December 2006. It occurred during Debate on bill on Offender Management Bill.
Offender Management Bill
Much has been made of bringing in voluntary organisations such as the Prince’s Trust to take over probation work. That is a leap in the dark. Imagine that the Prince’s Trust had a big probation contract in Grimsby. Imagine that things went disastrously wrong, as they can in any organisation, and that people on probation or supervised by the probation service went out on an orgy of looting, raping and pillaging. Imagine that one of them came down to London, got a machine gun and killed the Queen’s geese, as Roy Hattersley’s dog once did. Would a private sector organisation, especially the Prince’s Trust, be ready to incur the sort of odium that can arise in such situations?
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- 454 c677
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- 2006-07
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- 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
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- Offender Management Bill 2006-07
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