Sentencing

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 June 1993.

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Photo of Joan Ruddock Joan Ruddock , Lewisham, Deptford 12:00, 24 June 1993

Does the Home Secretary accept, further to his answer, that, in the longer-term interests of society, what happens to sexual offenders while in prison is equally important? Can he explain, therefore, why, when 2,000 inmates are eligible for sexual offender treatment programmes, provision has been made for a mere 300?