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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 9 February 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Charles Clarke.


Offender Management

Statement on five-year strategy for offender management.


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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
442 c1033-45 
Session
2005-06
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Charles Clarke | 442 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but I hope that he will acknowledge that there has been a substanti...
Bob Spink | 442 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that a key ingredient in the problem is that we have not done enough ...
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Charles Clarke | 442 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, but again I must make the point that it is a question not only of provi...
Peter Soulsby | 442 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, and the apparent consensus that alternatives to prison p...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the point about precision and transparency and acknowledge that that has not a...
Geoffrey Cox | 442 c1043 (Link to this contribution) Although I welcome a broader range of innovative and effective providers from the voluntary and priv...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for and perhaps surprised by the direction of those comments. The central objective, w...
John McDonnell | 442 c1043 (Link to this contribution) May I follow the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) made? I am convi...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is that I do not believe that such intimidation is widespread. There are examples o...
Desmond Swayne | 442 c1042 (Link to this contribution) How widespread is the problem of intimidation of prison officers and their families by drugs gangs t...
Rob Marris | 442 c1042 (Link to this contribution) Unusually for me, I want to build on a point that the shadow Home Secretary raised. He made a though...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. He may have noted an important recent speech by Lady Hal...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct. Although there have been some moves to improve the position, it remains u...
Neil Gerrard | 442 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the majority of people agree with my right hon. Friend’s comments about the need for ...
James Clappison | 442 c1042 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that few dangerous offenders are women and that relatively few women ...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I give away no secrets by saying that, when the full results of the consult...
Ian Lucas | 442 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) I should like to draw to my right hon. Friend’s attention the excellent work that is being carried o...
Charles Hendry | 442 c1041 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary announced a range of initiatives for improving the skills base and tackling the l...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1041 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point about the relationship between north Wales and the north-w...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1040 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect to the hon. Gentleman, he misses the point in an important way. I pay credit to...
Elfyn Llwyd | 442 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I think that most people would agree with the bulk of the right hon. Gentleman’s statement. As he kn...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful and important point about risk management, which is insufficiently a...
Sally Keeble | 442 c1040 (Link to this contribution) On building links with the community, may I bring to my right hon. Friend’s notice the outstanding w...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady raises five points. I generally welcome the approach that she has taken. On the disch...
Baroness Featherstone | 442 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the thrust of today’s announcement and the Home Secretary’s courtesy in providing an advan...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) I am always grateful for the comments of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, with his experience i...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 442 c1039 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that this Government started by talking tough on prison and failing to make the n...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1039 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend, and I am grateful to him for raising the point in that way. M...
Lord McCabe | 442 c1039 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that public confidence might increase if the public felt that they h...
David Davis | 442 c1034-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary, as is traditional, for advance sight of the statement, although much of ...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1033-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to make a statement. I am publishing today a fiv...
John Denham | 442 c1037 (Link to this contribution) The vision is correct, but the challenge is implementation. Will my right hon. Friend rule out the p...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1037 (Link to this contribution) Despite the negative tone adopted by the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis),...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend that the challenge is implementation. His Committee has taken a co...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and, as he knows, the London probation service is recruiting at the mome...
Peter Bone | 442 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary tell the House how many hours a day, on average, a prisoner spends in educat...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman those precise figures across the Floor today, but I will happily wr...
Philip Hollobone | 442 c1045 (Link to this contribution) May I draw to the Home Secretary’s attention the concerns of my constituent, Mrs. Anna Westaway, who...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I cannot comment on that particular case. I agree, however, that prison sentences are app...
Martin Linton | 442 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the emphasis on community sentences in my right hon. Friend’s statement, and the com...
Charles Clarke | 442 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I certainly envisage a role for voluntary and community organisations and I know of the hon. Gentlem...
Subjects
Crime prevention Alternatives to prison Offenders Prisons National Offender Management Service Rehabilitation Young offenders Reparation by offenders Reoffenders
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