Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:45 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Photo of David Hanson David Hanson The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 5:45, 16 October 2007

The suggestion is in a submission, and it may come to me, as a Minister, in the form of an amendment, because you have suggested it. I am interested in whether you think any youth rehabilitation order—the activity, programme, curfew, exclusion, residence, local authority residence, fostering, drug treatment, drug testing, education or mental health treatment requirements, or indeed the residential exercises for up to 90 days—is a context in which it is suitable, as paragraph 5 says, for “parents, foster parents or guardians to be able to use reasonable force to ensure their children and young persons comply with the orders”; or, as in the proposed additional clause, a context in which it is suitable for those having custody of the relevant person to use reasonable force to comply with the order.