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Offender Management Bill

I, too, am very glad that the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, is here to speak to his amendment. I know that we discussed it last week. I am pleased to welcome him into the same punishment den into which I was earlier condemned by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, for raising something outside the context of the Bill. I am extremely glad that he mentioned the fact that the causes are in society. I have read recently, and I most regret, that the Prime Minister has dropped his phrase, "““Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime””." We welcomed that when he said it, because it drew the whole of society into the resolution of these problems.