Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:45 pm on 14 October 2003.
The noble Baroness has been good enough to reply to many of the points that I made, but I would be glad to know whether the Government have made any assessment of the additional pressure that there will be on prison spaces. By how much is the prison population expected to rise? If that assessment has been made, will the noble Baroness say how much this will cost and where the money will come from? If it has not been done, why has it not been done?