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There is a serious problem with disparities in salary. There may be no simple answer and it may take some time to achieve a solution—that must be a long-term rather than short-term goal—but we should not put the issue to one side as if it was unimportant.
Crimes of dishonesty such as house-breaking and theft may not indicate that an offender is a violent person per se and the public may not need to be protected from them.
One of the issues that were discussed was that in many schools—the situation may be affected by devolved school management and so on—a group of adults may pay £30 to use school facilities for an hour and a group of young people may pay a lower rate of £5 an hour.
I recently asked for some statistics from my council. Between January and May 1999, the council received 166 MPs' letters but, between January and May 2001, we received 102 queries through the chief executive alone.