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HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI recognise the sensitivity of this issue in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency and that many will have looked closely at today’s decision in court. He knows that under the last…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because she emphasises punishment that works, and that has to mean skills, education and employment so that people do not go on to reoffend. We…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI explained at length in my statement who is at large. I have released data today outwith the normal cycle of releasing in July, which was done under the previous Government. I…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorThe hon. Member makes a good point. The system had got to a place where prisoners were not being released on Fridays. It is my understanding that that was relaxed, and I have…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question. She is absolutely right; we have to grip the system. I did that by chairing a performance board in the Department yesterday, and…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorThe hon. Gentleman raises issues that are, in a sense, beyond the prison system. He is right about the delivery mechanism of prisoners from court to prisons. He knows, because it…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: not once did the previous Government make a statement. Even when William Fernandez was released in error under them and went on to commit an…11 Nov 2025HANSARDHuman Rights LawsMr Speaker, the whole House will know that I shall be making a statement shortly after this Question Time. The Government are committed to human rights at home and abroad, but in…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI can give my hon. and learned Friend that undertaking. That is why we have brought forward the sentencing review and increased the removal of foreign national offenders to 5,000.…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorAs I said, I have apologised from the Dispatch Box. Human error is in the system. There are delays not just within our prisons but between different agencies, and that is why I…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorPrevious Governments did not have that data, and I am pretty confident that I do not have that data. If it exists, it exists in the individual police forces that deal with these…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for all the work she is doing in her community. I recognise that there will be anxiety in her constituency as a result of high-profile cases…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI recognise why the hon. Lady, who is very reasonable, has made her comments in that way, but I simply say that we inherited a system in which 17 errors on release are made every…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI know that the Victims Minister has met her. The right hon. Gentleman will also know that under the Sentencing Bill restriction zones can restrict the movement of those who have…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I think the public recognise that. They might not have visited our prisons, but they know that cuts in our public services are real. They…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorAs I said, I have released more data today than ever before. The hon. Member knows that the data is most often released in July. I will look closely at his prison to see. If 17…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorNo.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorAs I have just said, William Fernandez went on to commit an horrific crime but the last Government never came to the Dispatch Box about that. By definition, if we got to the…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorI have made available as much detail as possible, given that this information is normally released in July. Case 2 was in prison for a class B drug offence, and to the best of my…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorThe hon. Member is right to put at the heart of his question getting back to historic levels before we started to see the increase back in 2021. That is my intent: to get back to…11 Nov 2025