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Offender Management Bill

I support the Lords amendments. Although I listened carefully to the Minister’s arguments on behalf of the Government, I think that they require rather more analysis than he was able to give. When the Minister came to my constituency to address the Leicestershire and Rutland probation service at Leicester race course, than which there is no finer place, he did not exactly run away with himself. He was not exactly carried away with enthusiasm for the project over which he now has control, namely the National Offender Management Service. In the course of his remarks, of which someone kindly sent me a note—