Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:21 pm on 20 November 1990.

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Photo of Mr David Waddington Mr David Waddington , Ribble Valley 4:21, 20 November 1990

We are amazed by what we have just heard. Did the right hon. Gentleman say, entirely contrary to the suggestion by the Carlisle committee, that the Opposition propose that people should be released after serving one third of their sentence? The whole theme of the Carlisle proposal is that the sentence served should be more closely related to the sentence passed. Is that to be thrown overboard?