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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 December 2025

Debate

Sentencing Bill

Contribution

It is clear that across your Lordships’ House there is, subject to caveats, general support for many of the measures in the Bill, but there is also wide-scale concern about the capacity of the MoJ to deliver them, especially within the Prison and Probation Service. The noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, for example, when discussing my amendment on including gambling disorder considerations within the criminal justice system when we were last discussing the Bill, said:

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