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<p>A full Impact Assessment, setting out the cost across Criminal Justice System of
the proposed bail reforms, was drawn up as part of the consultation process in late
2014 and was updated in the light of that consultation in March 2015. The Impact Assessment
was updated again and published with the Policing and Crime Bill in February 2016;
a copy of the latest version is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499365/Impact_Assessment_-_Reform_Pre-Charge_Bail.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499365/Impact_Assessment_-_Reform_Pre-Charge_Bail.pdf</a></p><p>The
Home Office and the Ministry of Justice have worked together closely in drawing up
these proposals; I am of course a Minister in both Departments, and my Rt. Hon. Friend
the Secretary of State for Justice is one of the backers of the Policing and Crime
Bill.</p>
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