Member

Without further ado, I move to a potentially more intractable issue. The Committee may know that I raised the issue of the openness and transparency of the Parole Board, which is enunciated in my Amendment 127 in this group, during debates last year on the Victims and Prisoners Bill. I moved the amendment to that Bill both in Committee and on Report. Amendment 127 seeks to establish the presumption that Parole Board hearings are open to the public—with exceptions, of course. It seeks more generally to improve public faith and trust in the criminal justice system.