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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 November 1999
I have closely examined the pros and cons, and come to the conclusion that this is not the best way forward. I entirely understand why tenant farmers who may have farmed the land for many generations want the chance to own "their own" farms.
With the help of one of the researchers here in Parliament, we have identified that there is no single treatment that represents best practice or is the best source of evidence on what works.
Mr Wilson influenced my future, and I am sure that other members will have memories of teachers who inspired them. Such teachers got the best out of us and encouraged us to be the best, from primary to secondary school.
It is crammed with things such as public-private partnerships, best practices, best value, benchmarking, measuring outputs and building platforms, but it fails to address the most fundamental matter—rehabilitation of the offender.