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The strategies were published early this year, and since then we have had an election and a recess. I therefore do not think that, if we write to the Government now, we will learn anything of any worth.
We have to balance priorities and the funding that is available. Because of the recession, there has been a great deal of concentration on young people.
As I said in my introduction, we have just laid an SSI on the licensing for group 1 of the procedures, and the date set out in that instrument is 6 September 2027.
However, they cannot all be released at once; therefore, people who are closest to their liberation date will be released post their new liberation date.
In some cases, we were very successful in re-engaging with them, and we are now working with them to keep them up to date. That is the stuff that we have already done.