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Offender Management Bill

I want to make one or two substantive points but I shall be very brief. I am prepared to support the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness in whichever form—with or without the addition proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham—because there are deficiencies in the Bill. It is not clear on a number of issues. Either we shall have to establish several overriding principles or go into a lot more detail in some of the wording. In particular, the Bill does not mention the issues of holistic end-to-end support in reducing crime, rehabilitation and reintegration. I was going to talk on the question of proper punishment as the right reverend Prelate and others have done. Having listened to the debate, the entire problem could be solved if the noble Baronesswas prepared to reword her amendment to say, ““The supervision and enforcement of the proper punishment of offenders””.