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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, on that last point, the Government would have made their task on the purposes substantially easier if, in proposed new paragraph (c), they had put, ““the purposes of sentencing mentioned in subsection (4) (so far as it is not required to do so by paragraphs (a) and (b))””. That would have expressly incorporated the welfare factor into the purposes; then the Government would have met my criticism entirely. Perhaps the noble Lord might like to think about that.