Lorsque vous êtes arrivé au ministère de la Justice, en 2006, je crois, le ministère avait commandé une étude à M. Julian Roberts sur les peines minimales imposées dans les autres pays du Commonwealth.
Do you acknowledge what Mr. Roberts concluded, as is reflected in the letter sent by the Church Council on Justice and Corrections? He concluded that imposing minimum sentences in Commonwealth countries has apparently had no effect in terms of reducing the number of offences to which these minimum sentences apply.