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Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords]

Debate between Lord Beith and Roger Williams
Monday 11th November 2013

(11 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Beith Portrait Sir Alan Beith
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I give way first to my hon. Friend.

Roger Williams Portrait Roger Williams
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When my right hon. Friend takes evidence, will he focus on rural issues, because dividing the service between high risk cases and medium and low risk cases might make it uneconomic to deliver because the number of offenders in rural areas is so low?

Lord Beith Portrait Sir Alan Beith
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My hon. Friend would be surprised if I did not take rural issues into account, given that I represent the most sparsely populated areas of England.

I give way to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), who is a member of my Select Committee.

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