Does the Minister accept the logic of the situation that, if he is right about the one-third of community sentences that according to the government definition do not carry a punitive element, that one-third—amounting to many tens of thousands of sentences each year—would be disallowed and that that is the effect of the situation over the past nine years since the 2003 Act came into force?
Crime and Courts Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Elystan-Morgan
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 30 October 2012.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Crime and Courts Bill [HL].
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