Schedule 1
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
9:00 am
Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth, Labour)
Where does the schedule fetter the discretion of the supervising officer in deciding what amounts to a reasonable excuse? It might be family circumstances; it might be the development that the young person has made; it might be that he has attended a variety of things and that the breach is one little example of failure. As I read it, the schedule does not fetter the discretion of the supervising officer to act responsibly, but it does place a requirement on him to make a judgment. That is surely right.