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Cutting Crime (Justice Reinvestment)

I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, whose constituency of South Swindon is next door to mine. There is so much evidence of interesting, innovative programmes, which we have discussed in Committee. Is my hon. Friend is aware of the Vision Housing project in London, which aims to house ex-offenders and which is delivering the most extraordinary reduction in reoffending by providing one of the very things mentioned by the right hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth—stable housing upon release for ex-offenders. What is the opinion of my hon. Friend the Member for South Swindon as to why, with all this evidence for and cross-party commitment to making changes in the system, we still seem to be stuck in an old model with the National Offender Management Service and the Prison Service? We are not prepared to embrace the innovation that we all see out there every day.