division_name: Iran and Syria &#8212; Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords]
motion: <p class="" pid="a.662.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.662.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">I should like to start by offering an apology to the House and to you, Mr Speaker. I shall not be able to be here for the wind-ups at the end of the debate because, in my role as Lord Chancellor, I have to take part in the formal proceedings of the Lord Mayor&#8217;s banquet this evening. I have written to the shadow Secretary of State, <phrase class="honfriend" id="uk.org.publicwhip/member/40610" name="Sadiq Khan">the right hon. Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan)</phrase> and to the Chairman of the Select Committee, my right hon. Friend <phrase class="honfriend" id="uk.org.publicwhip/member/40073" name="Alan Beith">the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Alan Beith)</phrase>, to explain the position.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.669.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.669.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Offender Rehabilitation Bill [<i>Lords</i>] because the implementation of the proposals in the Bill depends on the Government&#8217;s proposed restructuring of the Probation Service; believes that this proposed restructuring will see the abolition of local Probation Trusts, the fragmentation of supervision of offenders on the basis of their risk level and the commissioning of services direct from Whitehall; further believes that the Government has failed to provide any costings for their proposals; notes reports that suggest the Ministry of Justice&#8217;s own internal risk register warns that the Government&#8217;s proposals could result in a high risk of an unacceptable drop in operational performance; and further declines to give a Second Reading to the Bill on the grounds that none of the Government&#8217;s proposals has been piloted nor independently evaluated, potentially resulting in an unnecessary risk to the public&#8217;s safety.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.741.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put, </i>That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.741.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.741.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 213, Noes 269.</p>