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Fighting Crime (Public Engagement)

I wonder whether my hon. Friend would agree, based on his experience of criminal practice—and I ask him this based on my experience—that the mystifying thing about paperwork is that there are seven, eight, nine or 10 forms for a police officer to fill in, but no more than one or two find their way to the criminal prosecutor whose job it is to secure a conviction. Does he wonder, as I do, what happens to the rest of them?