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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. However, we think that there is a basic principle involved and that the provision put forward by the Government is not sufficient. I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken on the amendment. I particularly recall the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, referring to our position in the league of shame in Europe. It is important that we should mark our disquiet and our feeling that what is happening at the moment is unacceptable, whether it relates to young offender institutions or secure training centres. No doubt those institutions contain people who are concerned and who work hard to achieve results with young people, but one of the problems is that, as those staff are within the Prison Service, they look for promotion upwards into the adult Prison Service. Some of the specialisation and talents that they develop within the YOIs and STCs are lost. For those reasons, we feel that it is necessary to test the opinion of the House on the issue. On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 81) shall be agreed to? Their Lordships divided: Contents, 67; Not-Contents, 124. Clause 55 [Extension of powers of non-legal staff]: