Clause 9
Offender Management Bill
2:30 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister (Home Affairs), Home Affairs; Harborough, Conservative)
Does the hon. Gentleman have any views on the suggestion that I made to the Minister? Seeing a draft model contract would be helpful, so that he could be assured that, if not licensed, private providers would have strict contractual requirements, which might be reinforced in a disciplinary way by regulations under secondary legislation. The Minister is trying to reassure us, but cannot do so wholly, because he does not yet know what will be the contractual terms, which have not been written. That is not his fault. The hon. Member for Walthamstow might be somewhat reassured to see the sort of thing that would bind a non-state party to the Home Secretary.