Home Affairs and Justice Debate

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Department: Home Office

Home Affairs and Justice

Gloria De Piero Excerpts
Thursday 10th May 2012

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Djanogly
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As I said, ASBOs are proving to have been ineffective and overly bureaucratic, and we are going to replace them with an order that is simpler to use and that works better.

May I congratulate theright hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Alun Michael) on his support for police and crime commissioners? Although I wish him well in his campaign to be one, may I say that this is somewhat of a volte face from his position when Labour was in government?

Gloria De Piero Portrait Gloria De Piero (Ashfield) (Lab)
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Will the Minister confirm that a breach of the proposed replacement for the ASBO—the crime prevention injunction—will not result in a criminal record?

Jonathan Djanogly Portrait Mr Djanogly
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ASBOs are civil orders at the moment. [Interruption.] A breach can lead on to a criminal offence, absolutely it can.

The Government want people to have powers that really work, that can be enforced, that provide faster, more visible justice to communities, that rehabilitate offenders, where possible, and that act as a real deterrent to perpetrators.