Parliamentary search - Sentencing (Green Paper)

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c245-54WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Breaking the cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Philip Hollobone | 520 c250WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, but my contention is that there are some unpleasant people out there who will commit crime unle...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c249-50WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not recognise that the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has sa...

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Jonathan Djanogly | 520 c250-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone) on securing this debate on the...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c254WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that it is completely and utterly wrong that in the past 13 years we should ...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c250WH (Link to this contribution) I fully endorse what my hon. Friend has said with regard to foreign nationals. Linked to that point,...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c250WH (Link to this contribution) As usual, my hon. Friend is quite right. However, now we have the Prime Minister launching a campaig...

Jonathan Djanogly | 520 c254WH (Link to this contribution) I do. The figure of more than 3,000 new offences comes to mind. We had the situation in which a new ...

Speaker | 520 c254WH (Link to this contribution) Order.

Mike Weatherley | 520 c248WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that sentencing and the number of people in prison should be determined by...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c248WH (Link to this contribution) I would say that my hon. Friend is spot on. He has provided me with a helpful link to the next part ...

Peter Bone | 520 c247-8WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been extremely generous in giving way. The fact that four Members have already co...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The previous Government made an almighty mess of this. Even thou...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c249WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. However, prison conditions are far too luxurious. I think that it is 1,...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c248WH (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend. Frankly, it is a national scandal that we do not have enough ...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c249WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that if we must have these community penalties, they need to be tough an...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c249WH (Link to this contribution) I wanted to make a point with regard to community penalties. I have been at the criminal Bar and pro...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c246WH (Link to this contribution) It should be pursued, yes, but not for persistent and prolific offenders. Far too many nasty people ...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c246WH (Link to this contribution) With regard to short sentences, is it not the case that a prisoner who is on six months will do thre...

Anna Soubry | 520 c246-7WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that there is a danger in just looking at statistics, in that we do no...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c246WH (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent point with which I entirely agree.

Anna Soubry | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) Let us take that example. That could be someone who is, for example, committing shop thefts on a reg...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend. I understand that we are not talking about serious offences. None th...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but that person is a nasty person. Just because someone is not violent does not mean tha...

Speaker | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be shorter.

Rehman Chishti | 520 c247WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is spot on in terms of what went on from April 2007 to April 2010 when some 80,000 pr...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c246WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about that, but prisoners need to work more in prison. On page 9 of the Gree...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c246WH (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State for Justice has indicated that that is one of his intentions. I have also tak...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. I have some statistics that I shall use later about how we do n...

Rehman Chishti | 520 c245-6WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that we have to look at overall sentencing in three respects—punishmen...

Speaker | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I do not think anything. You must refer to the hon. Gentleman.

Neil Carmichael | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) My apologies.

Philip Hollobone | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with my hon. Friend. Yes, it is right that reoffending rates are far too high and...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) We have twice as many people in prison as the French. Do you think that we are twice as naughty or t...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to say what my constituents think, which is, of course, that they want la...

Philip Hollobone | 520 c245WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Leigh. I thank Mr Speaker for being kind enoug...

Peter Bone | 520 c249WH (Link to this contribution) That is the very point that I wanted to address today. My constituency neighbours my hon. Friend's a...

Subjects

Offenders

Prisoners

Prisons

Rehabilitation

Sentencing

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