There is, to some extent, a public interest in welding the probation and welfare service with the prisons service, rather than making them into competing snouts at the Exchequer trough. When money is put into the general areas of rehabilitation, it should not be the subject of undue competition between two separate agencies which are not co-ordinating their activities to the best extent. This is not to say that I propose to subjugate the probation and welfare service to the prisons service, which is larger. It is merely to say that there is an argument to be made for looking at them as two bodies whose activities should be co-ordinated, with a common intelligence driving their activities, rather than having two separate organisational structures and two separate sets of policies, one for incarceration and the other devoted to rehabilitation in the aftermath of punishment.