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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Let us move on to clause 108, which relates to a new power for the Secretary of State to prevent the automatic release of offenders serving a standard determinate sentence, where…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Clearly, in the first instance we would expect the responsible officer to exercise these powers in a reasonable way and to exercise discretion. Hopefully, as I said a few minutes…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am anxious to make progress, but I will take an intervention.15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)That already happens, of course, with extended determinate sentences, where it is possible that the person will spend all their sentence in prison. If the Parole Board does that,…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Can I clarify whether the hon. Member is talking about potentially indeterminate sentences?15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Sorry, Sir Charles; I was momentarily moved to speechlessness by the fact that the Opposition have just voted to let child rapists out of jail earlier than the clause proposes.15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Clause 107 makes some changes to SOPC—sentences for offenders of particular concern—essentially to tidy up an anomaly that arose from the changes made last year. As Members will…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Of course, we do believe in rehabilitation and prevention, and a lot of work is going on in that area, but we are talking about people who have been convicted of offences such as…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Wonderful. We would like to see the kind of consultation that already takes place in Scarborough and Whitby take place across the country as a whole, and that is precisely the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)We want a youth justice system that recognises the unique needs of children, tackles the underlying reasons why children offend and intervenes early to provide support and divert…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)With that thought in mind, I will try to deal with the important points raised as quickly as I can. We recognise that young people in detained accommodation or in custodial…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Most likely, as a matter of practice, that would be the prison governor or prison authorities who see behaviour of concern, and might draw the matter to the attention of the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I cannot speculate on what may happen in the future. The shadow Minister pointed out that the number of TPIMs in use is pretty small and that is most certainly true. Equally, the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Let me start with clause 124, which would give responsible officers the power to compel offenders to attend an appointment at any point in a community order or during the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I have relatively little to say on these clauses, which are technical in nature. Clause 110 covers responsibility for setting licence conditions for fixed-term prisoners. Clause…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Very briefly, clause 109 makes provision for manifest errors in Parole Board release decisions to be corrected. Government amendment 132 implements a recent court judgment where…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 132, in clause 109, page 99, line 11, leave out “resulted from a clear mistake” and insert “it would not have given or made but for an error”. This…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 68, in clause 115, page 104, line 21, at end insert— “(2A) The amendments made by subsection (2)(a)(i) do not have effect in relation to an offender who—…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Amendment 68 is a technical amendment that introduces a transitional provision that has been identified as necessary to address a short two-month gap before different, but…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I feel bound to reply to some of the points that the shadow Minister has just made. First, he said that the provisions make sentencing more complicated and that it will be harder…15 Jun 2021