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Offender Management Bill

The Minister will know that the whole Committee is grateful to hear the Government’s view that they must respond coherently on these matters. The Corston report is significant. I am delighted to see the noble Baroness, Lady Corston, in her place. Is the Minister aware—I am sure she is—that we are shortly to enter a phase in which no Thursdays are available for the parties and the Cross Benches to table debates? Therefore, we shall shortly be at a significant disadvantage in that we will not be able to table a Thursday debate on the report. Will she bear in mind that there might therefore be pressure through the usual channels for the Government to make time available to debate their response to this significant matter?