I certainly cannot answer that directly; I will have to write. It is an interesting point. I shall not mention providers by name, but if a private prison or a private transporter of prisoners was guilty of corporate manslaughter, would the line of responsibility run back to the MoJ? I take it that that is the point. It is an interesting point. I suspect that, on the one hand, the suggestion would be that the responsibility for the corporate manslaughter would be that of the provider and that the provider would be charged; on the other hand, there is the argument that the MoJ should never have given the contract to such a body in the first place. This is what makes this job both interesting and frightening at times. I shall write to my noble friend to clarify.
Motion agreed.
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2011
Proceeding contribution from
Lord McNally
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 July 2011.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2011.
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