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I will just give my second reason, which is that allowing private companies to make a profit out of the incarceration of human beings is simply immoral.
Before the hon. Lady’s intervention, I remind hon. Members that the debate is tightly focused on the pension age of prison officers, and I hope that interventions and contributions will focus just on that.