Part of Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill – in the House of Commons at 9:45 pm on 13 January 1997.
The Minister has made that point before, and I know that he has received medical advice to support it. I have taken a fairly broad range of medical advice on the matter, and I should tell him that the issue is contentious. He may have received such advice, but many experts would disagree strongly with it.