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HANSARDTopical QuestionsAgain, if the shadow Secretary of State ever paid any attention to detail, he would know that that letter was sent by EU member states and we are no longer a member of the…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending on ProbationWe inherited a justice system in crisis, with prisons churning out better criminals, not better citizens, and we know that 80% of offenders are reoffenders. Last week, I announced…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending on ProbationWe are investing in probation. Funding will increase by £700 million by the final year of the spending review. That is a 45% increase in annual budgets, which will fund further…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending on ProbationI think the country will hold to account those responsible for the absolute mess that this Government inherited. Nowhere in the right hon. Gentleman’s question did he acknowledge…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeThis Government inherited a situation in which 10% of offenders account for 50% of all offences, with a small number of repeat offenders wreaking havoc in our communities and on…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeThe hon. Member should know that 60% of all people who are given a short custodial sentence go on to reoffend within the year, so clearly the system that we have does not work. We…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeMy hon. Friend raises an important point. He is right that so-called ancillary orders, often referred to as travel bans, bans from seeing football and bans on the ability to go to…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeThe shadow Minister should know that the Law Commission is considering the whole area of unduly lenient sentencing. It is important that we let it do its work and that it is able…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHigh Street CrimeIf the shadow Minister ever did any homework, he would know that it is always the Attorney General who has to agree and sign off on unduly lenient sentencing referrals. Our…03 Jun 2025HANSARDImmigration Offences: SentencingMinisters meet regularly with the chair of the Sentencing Council. On the specific guidelines for immigration offences, the hon. Member will know that they set a minimum sentence,…03 Jun 2025HANSARDImmigration Offences: SentencingI can assure the hon. Gentleman that I and colleagues in the Justice Department are working closely with our colleagues in the Home Department to make sure that we have a…03 Jun 2025HANSARDImmigration Offences: SentencingNo; what this Government are doing is cleaning up the almighty mess left to us by the previous Government, of which the right hon. Gentleman was a member. He knows full well that…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI know the House shares my anger at recent attacks against prison officers. After the awful events at HMP Frankland, I commissioned a review into the use of protective body…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady will know that that is a matter primarily for the Foreign Secretary. We keep under review all judgments of all courts, domestic and international, and adopt our…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me give the shadow Secretary of State a much-needed education, because he appears not to know that under the Tory Government violence on staff in our prisons soared and…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Domestic Abuse and ViolenceOf course, we work closely with colleagues in the Home Office and the Treasury. The Government will shortly publish the outcome of the spending review, but I can assure my hon.…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI agree with the hon. Gentleman. Again, people who pay attention to the detail will know that there are already mutual aid agreements in place between prisons and local police…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsChemical suppression is a mechanism used by other jurisdictions around the world, and it has been shown to work. The previous Government sat on a pilot for years on end and did…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not know what the right hon. Member is referring to, because the Government have already announced that we are considering the way in which our human rights laws are applied…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises such an important point. I have been struck by so many meetings with victims in which they feel that the exclusion zones, as currently constructed,…03 Jun 2025