Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits Debate
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Gavin Williamson
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Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits
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Sir Nicholas Dakin
No, it is not. This is about people who have already served their sentence in prison; they are out in the community. If they breach a condition of their licence, they are returned to prison. The hon. Gentleman might as well ask why the Government he supported did not take any of the measures that he mentions. Our Government inherited the mess that his Government left us, and we are taking decisions to address the unconscionable threat of having a prison system that is not able to lock up dangerous people.
Sir Gavin Williamson (Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) (Con)
Ministers seem to have been deliberately vague about the number of domestic abuse offenders who will be eligible for release, and the breadth of their offences. Given how big the announcement is, the Government and the Department will have done a lot of work looking at who will be eligible. Will the Minister set out to the House the exact number of domestic abuse offenders who will be eligible for this scheme?
Sir Nicholas Dakin
I hear the right hon. Gentleman’s question, and I will write to him.