Voting by Prisoners

Part of Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 3:14 pm on 10 February 2011.

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Photo of Jack Straw Jack Straw Labour, Blackburn 3:14, 10 February 2011

The difference between the people in prison who can vote and those who cannot is very clear and, self-evidently, justified. Prisoners who have not been convicted or sentenced to a term of imprisonment are able to continue to vote. No one would argue with that, because those people have not gone beyond the bar at which they would be unable to vote, so I do not understand the hon. Gentleman's point.