Clause 3
Offender Management Bill
Public Bill Committees, 16 January 2007, 4:30 pm
James Brokenshire (Shadow Minister (Homeland Security), Home Affairs; Hornchurch, Conservative)
Thankyou, Mr. Atkinson. I welcome you to the Chair this afternoon.
I was midway through my comments on the arrangements for the individualisation of service and the need for services to be maintained. The Minister has said that there will be flexibility for probation officers not necessarily to follow a particular framework for an offender all the way through and that other parties could be involved. I hope that he is not rowing back from the Home Secretary’s commitment to a
“seamless and individual package of supervision and support from the start of their sentence to the end, overseen by a single offender manager”.
We have significant concerns on the structure of the clause, and I therefore wish to test the Committee’s view.