Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
12:30 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
Thank you, Sir Nicholas. A number of the provisions of the Bill are bound to increase the prison population. The prison population has not been reduced as a result of the introduction of ECL with an 18-day early release. I am asking you whether you now have plans to increase the 18-day period for early release to something longer than that.