My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) was right to talk of the Crisis in Our Criminal Justice System.

Our investigations also show the extent of the current Crisis in the Criminal Justice System.

I should like to comment briefly on the main changes in sentencing against the background of the current Crisis in the Criminal Justice System.

I beg to move, That this House notes the increasing evidence of a Crisis in the Criminal Justice System, with excessive levels of prison overcrowding, failure to tackle rising reoffending rates, unacceptable breach rates of the Government's anti-social behaviour measures, widespread public fear of crime and the judiciary's concern over Government sentencing policy; believes that a new direction in Government policy prioritising administrative competence over media-driven legislative initiatives is urgently required; calls on the Government to make prison work by tripling the numbers of prisoners doing paid work and making education and training compulsory, with contributions from earnings going towards a victim compensation fund; calls for measures to allow sentences to mean what they say; further calls for the abandonment of the expensive identity cards scheme to allow funding for a sustainable increase in police numbers; urges the Government to divert money allocated to the latest prison building programme towards the expansion of secure and semi-secure mental health treatment facilities; and further calls on the Government to increase the use of restorative community justice panels to help reduce repeat crime, increase the use of rigorous and visible non-custodial sentences as a viable alternative to short-term prison sentences and change licensing provision to give local communities greater say over the closure of pubs and clubs which contribute to alcohol-fuelled violence.

Can we have a debate on the Crisis in the Criminal Justice System?

They are: the creation of five types of crime; the creation of Crisis in the Criminal Justice System; the economic costs; the undermining of public health; the destabilisation of producer countries; and the undermining of human rights.