Sentencing Reform/Legal Aid

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 21 June 2011.

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Photo of Stewart Jackson Stewart Jackson Conservative, Peterborough 3:32, 21 June 2011

The opportunistic shroud-waving of the Opposition obscures the fact that Labour never enacted the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996, which would have allowed victims to be compensated by the work of prisoners. Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm the welcome news for my constituents that vexatious, long drawn-out and costly taxpayer-funded immigration appeals are coming to an end?