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HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksMy hon. Friend is exactly right. It costs £54,000 a year to have any individual in prison in our country—that is a lot of money. That is why it is important that we reduce the…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThere is actually a point of agreement between the two main parties: that foreign national offenders who commit crimes should be deported as quickly as possible. We are attempting…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksMy hon. Friend is right, and it is hugely important to put this in the context not only of the victims, who will have been anxious, but of the inheritance of the backlog in our…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThe hon. Gentleman was right, at the beginning of his question, to centre the victims of these crimes and their anxiety, and to hold that dear. That is why the first thing I said…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksI want to reassure my hon. Friend that the Prisons Minister is talking to Home Office colleagues about these very issues at this time.27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksI am grateful to the hon. Lady. I know that this case has been shocking for her constituents and that the reports and scenes of this prisoner wandering around Chelmsford will have…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksI am grateful to my hon. Friend. The truth is that, under this Government in our first year in office, more than 5,100 foreign national offenders were removed from this country.…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThe right hon. Gentleman will have heard the Housing Secretary this morning talking about how we are looking at military sites. We are looking at a number of them intently. I am…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksAs a statement of fact, the Conservatives recognise that the inheritance we had in this context was poor. The public want to ensure that whoever is in government keeps them safe…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for the tone of her remarks. She is right that what happened was entirely unacceptable, and understandably the victims of Kebatu’s crimes and…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksMy hon. Friend raises an important point. As he knows, there is to this day largely no wi-fi or anything like that available on our prison sites, in part because of concerns over…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksThis is a serious issue and that is why there will be a full independent investigation. The shadow Justice Secretary—I will give him this—is smooth. But as my mother would have…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksI would like to make a statement on the release in error of Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford last Friday morning. As the House will be aware, Mr Kebatu was apprehended by the…27 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe hon. Gentleman has to read the Bill, because it does not reduce sentences. He really has to get to grips with the detail of the Bill—I hope these things can be discussed in…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI am going to make some progress. The Bill introduces a new progression model for standard determinate sentences, incentivising offenders to behave in prison. It draws heavily on…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI have had fun with the hon. Gentleman, but I must make some progress. The Government are funding the largest expansion since the Victorians. In our first year, we opened nearly…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI will always give way to a brass neck.16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe truth is that we are building places faster than the Victorians did. [ Interruption. ] We will have built 14,000 by 2031—16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillIf the hon. Gentleman stops baying like a child and lets me come to the point, he asks me about the Conservatives’ record and their record was this: violence up in prisons,…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI have to say, the hon. Gentleman has not challenged the 500 figure. He should read the Ministry of Justice releases. Five hundred! We will have 14,000 by 2031—16 Sept 2025