Member

Amendments 56 and 58 would require the Secretary of State to publish statistics on rehabilitation days and an annual report on incomplete probation requirements; they are welcome. I agree with my noble friend Lord Foster that there are serious problems, about which we are very concerned, with the availability of resources and information for the Probation Service. I would only add that this is a probing amendment in the sense that I should have thought that such information would be regularly collected by a well-regulated department, which we hope the Department of Justice is, and that that information would be available anyway without a formal annual reporting requirement.