Amendment 155

Part of Victims and Prisoners Bill - Committee (7th Day) (Continued) – in the House of Lords at 8:30 pm on 12 March 2024.

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Photo of Lord Hope of Craighead Lord Hope of Craighead Judge 8:30, 12 March 2024

Before the noble and learned Lord sits down, will he comment on the point I was making about the aim of having these reviews written into the statute? Subsection (2) in the new clause set out in Amendment 162 says that they are taking place

“with a view to ensuring that all possible steps are taken to enable their safe release at the earliest possible time”.

That flags up, at the outset, exactly what these reviews are dealing with. I do not know whether it is already in the action plan that the Minister has been referring to, but is there some way of getting that purpose clearly identified, and of course communicating that purpose to the DPP prisoners themselves who are subject to the system, so that they know that that is the purpose for which these reviews are being conducted?