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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

There is not time, unfortunately. We will ensure that that is done across the country—paying people to get into work, to stop reoffending and to ensure that they get off drugs. We are driving through a much more ambitious agenda of recovery to stop this everlasting cycle of criminality—being on drugs, committing crime to feed a drugs habit, going to prison and so on. We will break that cycle of crime. There are concerns, whether it is magistrates wanting to extend the period of imprisonment to the maximum of 12 months or on legal aid, but this is a good Bill that—
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
530 c1011 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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