The 2007 Act was permissive. It gave the Justice Secretary powers that could be used if probation trusts were failing. Probation trusts were supposed to commission services; I will come on to how the Act works in practice. As far as the Bill is concerned, if I were in a fit of pique, I would be an ideologue and do what my gut told me, but I look at the evidence on what works. That is what I will look at when I become Justice Secretary on 8 May 2015.
Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Sadiq Khan
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 November 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords].
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