Member

My noble friend’s committee came forward with a number of recommendations about how to improve this. One was to make reference in the pre-sentence report to the community sentences available within a local area. Another was to do what the Minister told me categorically when I introduced an amendment previously talking about ways of improving public awareness of things: that the best way of doing it was to make these schemes actually work and that is the way the public will begin to have confidence in them. That was the second major recommendation of the committee’s report. It certainly did not include anything about naming and shaming, the publication of photographs and names, and so on. My noble friend, I am quite sure, will agree that the proposals in the Bill are not sensible ways of moving forward.