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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 January 2026

Debate

Sentencing Bill

Contribution

Why, therefore, do you need to devolve the criminal justice system, particularly the bits relating to offender management? That is set out in the report of the commission I have the honour to chair, in four short paragraphs, paragraphs 4.280 to 4.283: there is an approach in a small nation that is vastly better than the approach being adopted here in England. It is to ensure that you have a system which radically rethinks, as the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, described earlier today, the way in which our sentencing process works.

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