Member

I am also concerned about probation capacity and capability. There is no scenario, if we implement this reform and the others that are coming, in which the probation system will need to do less. It will have to do a great deal more and a lot quicker, and, as the Minister said, it will be dealing with much more high-risk offenders. I should like some reassurance from him that the resources that have been made available in the spending review and wider reforms, including the use of technology that he talked about, will really make a fundamental step change in the performance of the Probation Service, without which all this would not be adequate.