Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:15 pm on 16 October 2007.
May I follow up on one more point on clause 10 before the hon. Member for Cambridge continues? The points that have been made will obviously be subject to debate in Committee. However, I was interested in your submission on clause 10, in which you said:
“We accept that there may be a need for further training on SSOs to re-emphasise the fact that they are a custodial sentence.”
That seems to me to indicate that, irrespective of the proposals in the Bill, there are currently some identified problems in relation to the understanding or implementation of suspended sentence orders. Could you outline what those concerns are?