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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 10th of November.

Coming up, it's a House of Lords only day, but the opposition keeps up the pressure over accidental offender releases.

A minister explains it's not an easy job for prison staff.

We're often dealing with individuals, with different aliases, with multiple convictions,

and we need to make sure we get it right.

Meanwhile, there's concern that the government plans for respect orders will lead to...

The criminalisation of vulnerable people, people with addiction problems, people with mental health problems.

Also in the programme, the Minister who would not dream of speculating about the budget.

But first, the Prisons Minister has said he and the Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy

were told first thing last Wednesday morning that an Algerian sex offender, Brahim Kudur Sharif, had been released by mistake from Wandsworth Prison.

David Lamy failed to say anything about the accidental release of Kudur Sharif or another man when he was repeatedly challenged on the issue when he covered

for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's questions in the Commons, asked who knew what and when,

the Minister Lord Timson tried to explain. Both the Deputy Prime Minister and myself were

identified first thing on Wednesday morning when we woke up. And the Deputy Prime Minister, quite rightly,

thought it was irresponsible to potentially give incorrect information to Parliament.

The information was changing rapidly,

and the Deputy Prime Minister didn't want to mislead Parliament without all the details.

The releasees had been made public almost as soon as David Lamey had finished answering questions.

So a Conservative Lord Harper wondered.

He said that the information available to the Deputy Prime Minister was changing rapidly.

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