Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Crispin Blunt and Lord Mann

Tuesday 11th January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Blunt]

That is why we have to address the appalling reoffending rates of those people sentenced to short terms in prison. There were 60,000 of those in the past year, and I am afraid that the option of sending them all to prison for 10 years does not exist, so we have to make a success of rehabilitation. We have to ensure that longer sentences are given to recidivist offenders and that we effectively rehabilitate people and break the cycle of crime through the proposals that we have presented in the Green Paper to drive that number down.

[John Mann (Bassetlaw) (Lab)]

T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.