Member

Today, we are looking, as a Committee, at particular amendments to the Bill. I should perhaps be the first to say something about each of the amendments. The first group has to do with resentencing. I dealt with the principle of resentencing in my Second Reading speech and I will not repeat those points. It seems to me that the real issue is whether we have resentencing as a matter of policy. I made the point that, for those in prison, that would usually result in immediate release of people who often fairly recently had been deemed to be dangerous. So we on the Front Bench take issue with the premise underlying the amendments, but we share the aim, which is to ensure that all those currently serving IPP sentences in prison or in the community are removed wherever it is possible to do so.