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Debate between Tristram Hunt and Lord Clarke of Nottingham
Tuesday 3rd July 2012

(12 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Clarke of Nottingham Portrait Mr Clarke
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In all these things, I take the view that the status of the person involved—whether they are classified as public sector or private sector, or who exactly they work for or which union they belong to—is a slightly subordinate issue. This is a rather sterile debate of a few decades ago about whether there should be private sector or public sector provision. What matters is the quality of what is done, the quality of the person, the relationships they develop, and what is available to them to make a community sentence more effective.

Tristram Hunt Portrait Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab)
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7. What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the system for recovery of criminal fines.