Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Cindy Barnett: I think that we are talking about the length of pieces of string. We know that problems occur at the moment. Extending the powers would obviously alleviate some of those, but this seems to be a question of extending the powers so that more can be taken on, and is therefore a recreation of the same problem. Unless you are going to give designated caseworkers all the powers of fully fledged Crown prosecutors, in which case there is no difference, there is obviously going to be a gap and a difficulty.