Prisoner Release

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 10 November 2009.

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Photo of Humfrey Malins Humfrey Malins Conservative, Woking 2:30, 10 November 2009

Six years ago, in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, there were introduced a whole new raft of sentencing provisions in magistrates courts, such as custody plus, custody minus, the 51-week provision and so on. They went on to the statute book, so can the Secretary of State tell us why, six years later, they have not even been implemented?