There was the Home Secretary warning himself about the Crisis in the Prison Service, yet nothing was done.

We could then have a full and adequate debate on the impending Crisis in Our Prison Service.

I have listened with interest and care to their views about the Crisis in the Prison Service.

There is a Crisis in the Prison Service.

I should like to dwell upon certain aspects of the report rather than on the undoubted Crisis in the Prison Service about which we are both deeply concerned.

What steps does the Home Secretary propose to take to ease the Crisis in the Prison Service in Leicester, rather than the cosmetic steps that he announced to the House on 30 March this year?

Does that not provide the most vivid illustration of the causes of the Crisis in the Prison Service?

It is regrettable, however, that in typically British fashion it took a Crisis in the Prison Service - the riots - to precipitate the encyclopaedic report that was presented to us today.

Is the Minister aware that the Crisis in the Prison Service in Wales, as in England, will have been heightened this week by the Home Secretary's rejection of his chief inspector's report on prison overcrowding?

On the Crisis in the Prison Service, to which the hon. Member for Ryedale (Mr. Greenway) referred, can the Minister confirm that, while prison numbers are rising by more than 300 a month, the Secretary of State is cutting the Prison Service budget by more than £6 million a month, every month, for the next three years?

That rushed plan is surely a symptom of the Crisis in the Prison Service.

In the current climate of Crisis in Our Prison Service, I would have thought that cutting the numbers that reoffend would make a significant difference to an already over-stretched system.

I was pleased when the noble Baroness, Lady Seccombe, responding from the Conservative Front Bench, said: "In the current climate of Crisis in Our Prison Service, I would have thought that cutting the numbers that reoffend would make a significant difference to an already over-stretched system".