Member

Perhaps the most important of my noble friend’s amendments is Amendment 93A. It is similar to Amendment 139B in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, which would require the Secretary of State to produce an annual report on the levels of reoffending. I think everyone agrees that these statistics are important. Reoffending rates are important in their own right, but far more important is the effect of policy on those rates and of those rates on policy; it is a virtuous circle.