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Lord Foster of Bath (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 November 2025

Debate

Sentencing Bill

Contribution

If I may, I would like to help the noble Baroness with the very powerful argument that she is making, with a set of statistics that I hope noble Lords will find worrying. If we look at the 91,000 people on average who are currently engaged in probation, community sentences and so on, we find that, in 2023, only 1,302 of them even started treatment—that is 1.8%. The shortage of support services is deeply worrying.

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