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The Executive must have a great pool of precedent from which to draw in order to carry out the difficult task of establishing a fair set of rules for a new body that is seized with responsibility for a new task.
Therefore, despite the obvious impact that initiatives have had and your support for them, are they the right way to introduce new ideas, new methods of working and new priorities into the delivery of services?
In particular, I am informed to some extent by my visit last year, in relation to the prison estates review, to a French prison at Bapaume, where the strong assertion was that the majority of the prisoners had a sexual aspect to their offences.
A positive choice was made and it is a positive feature of the bill.The new legislation seeks to reflect the new principle of authorisation through its constituent parts.
Mark Brough has told me that the regulations are already in force, as the instrument was laid under the negative procedure. That means that a new instrument will have to be laid.