Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Gemma Doyle and Crispin Blunt

Tuesday 13th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Blunt]

Housing—having a home to go to—is plainly a key crime desistance factor, but an awful lot of other key factors, such as work and drug addiction, are well-documented. We want to get out of the business of identifying exactly what inputs people must deliver to offenders, but make all sorts of institutions responsible for focusing on the outputs and let them take the decisions about which are the appropriate desistance factors to address for the offenders whom they are treating.

[Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire) (Lab/Co-op)]

14. When he plans to bring forward proposals on compensation for victims of overseas terrorism.