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Adults with Learning Disabilities

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It would be interesting if the Minister mentioned in his response the number of people sent to prison by magistrates and judges because there is no suitable non-prison accommodation to which they can be sent due to the crime that they have committed as a result of their learning disability or mental illness. To my mind, it is criminal, if I may use that phrase, that people who are mentally ill or have mental disabilities or learning difficulties end up in prison because society cannot properly deal with them outside prison. I hope that he will provide the number, which would add up to a very large figure indeed.