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My noble friend Lord Foster also spoke about the staffing of the Prison Service and the Probation Service, and probation officers’ individual case loads; he said much about tagging. I agree with him that the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, may have found a simple way in Amendment 134 of delaying implementation to make the point. But there is considerable merit in the point my noble friend made, which underpinned his case, that regular reporting is crucial if we are to improve not just sentencing but the criminal justice system as a whole.