Member

I need not read out the statistics that have been published by UNGRIPP on the suicide and self-harm rates. We cannot ignore that, but that is the harm that we are doing by not acting, and why Lord Brown was so right when he coined the phrase that this was a stain on British justice. Surely, we cannot delay any longer changing the arrangements for release. The amendment put forward seeks to do that in a way that is as safe as can be devised, while bringing to an end this misconceived sentence and at last doing justice. I very much hope that the Government will realise that action cannot any longer be avoided.