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HANSARDSecure Estate for Young PeopleThe right hon. Gentleman is right to say that custody should be a last resort. I am pleased to say that it is a last resort, which is why we have a much smaller number of youths…09 Jun 2020HANSARDSecure Estate for Young PeopleMy hon. Friend makes an important point about the training of prison officers: it is important that they get the right training to help turn lives around. We have introduced a new…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrisoner Rehabilitation and EducationIn prison, as in the community, there have been restrictions, which have been designed to keep prisoners and staff safe from covid-19. We have taken unprecedented action and we…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrisoner Rehabilitation and EducationThose are two important points. On education, I completely agree with the hon. Lady that is it important to the reduction of reoffending. As I mentioned, we have set out in our…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrisoner Rehabilitation and EducationMy hon. Friend and other Members who represent Kent, Surrey and Sussex work closely with their CRC. We are looking carefully at how we can support the farming industry and other…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrisoner Rehabilitation and EducationI thank the hon. Lady for her questions. It is right to point out that, when the crisis first hit, we did significantly reduce our regimes in prisons, but prisoners should have…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrisoner Rehabilitation and EducationI am aware of the scheme, which is a great example of joint working between HMP Onley, Virgin Trains and Halfords. HMPPS has partnerships with over 300 such organisations, which…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrison CapacityAs my right hon. Friend will know, we have tried to increase headroom in the estate through a variety of mechanisms, and our early release scheme is one of those. We are…09 Jun 2020HANSARDSecure Estate for Young PeopleLevels of violence in our youth estate are too high. We are determined to improve safety by investing in staff, education, psychology services and mental health support and by…09 Jun 2020HANSARDSecure Estate for Young PeopleThe hon. Member is right to point out a number of reports in this area. Her Majesty’s inspectorate of prisons’ thematic report in January on the separation of children in YOIs…09 Jun 2020HANSARDSecure Estate for Young PeopleMy hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee recognises an important point. We are ensuring at the moment that we do not send young people into custody unless they have…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrison CapacityMr Speaker, I know the subject of court reopenings is very close to your heart. To support the Prime Minister’s commitment to crack down on crime, we are investing up to £2.5…09 Jun 2020HANSARDPrison CapacityAs my hon. Friend will know, on 5 May I announced our commitment to locate the first residential women’s centre in Wales, and we are now working closely with our Welsh partners to…09 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Prison Staff and PrisonersI appreciate it is very important to get a view from the ground as well as to understand what is said by officials. As the Secretary of State has already identified, we are…27 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Prison Staff and PrisonersI would like to take this opportunity to thank all our prison and probation staff for the outstanding work that they are doing on a daily basis. They are some of our hidden…27 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Prison Staff and PrisonersAs the Secretary of State has outlined, we have a many-pronged approach to ensuring that we reduce the headroom in the estate. We are, as the Secretary of State mentioned,…27 Apr 2020HANSARDJusticeMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the importance of removing foreign offenders to serve sentences in their own countries, and we have removed 51,000 such offenders from our…17 Mar 2020HANSARDJusticeMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the importance of removing foreign offenders to serve sentences in their own countries, and we have removed 51,000 such offenders from our…17 Mar 2020HANSARDPrison CapacityWe are investing £2.5 billion in an additional 10,000 prison places. This is on top of the 3,500 prison places already being built and in the pipeline.25 Feb 2020HANSARDDeradicalisation of Prisoners: Longer SentencesWe were very happy to receive the right hon. Member’s review in 2017 on ethnic minority individuals in the criminal justice system and have acted on many of its recommendations.…25 Feb 2020