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HANSARDEarly Release SchemeI believe that all who have written have received a response from the Ministry, but I will chase down that specific case. The way we implemented the policy meant that we were able…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast week, the National Audit Office released a damning report on the previous Government’s record on prison building, showing that their promise of 20,000 prison places by the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend will know that this Government have launched a pilot of domestic abuse protection orders in a number of areas, which will bring together the strongest possible…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhere was the shadow Secretary of State over the past 14 years when the theft epidemic began? Again, given the scale of his party’s general election defeat, some humility is…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Member will know that there has been a recent Law Commission report on marriage law more generally. The Government are going to consult on broader reform of…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend. Tagging technology can monitor offenders effectively in the community. We have tags that monitor curfews and exclusion zones, tags to impose home…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are currently using a data collection and publication approach inherited from the previous Conservative Government—probably from the hon. Member’s time as an adviser to the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere are no girls currently in Wetherby. We have not changed and will not be changing the policy we inherited from the previous Government in relation to single-sex spaces and…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe independent sentencing review will be making recommendations to ensure that our sentencing legislation and framework is fit for purpose and that we always have prison places…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is right: drugs are rife in too many of our prisons and that problem has been very difficult to challenge, both for the previous Government and no doubt for us…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Gentleman will have heard me say many times, we have brought forward an independent sentencing review to look at the issues of sentencing in the round to ensure that…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsFirst, the last Conservative Government were right to abolish the IPP sentencing regime, but that has left us with a cohort within our prison system who are still serving these…10 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe sentencing review will primarily look at the sentencing framework and how we treat different cohorts of offenders within that. It will consider drug crime, too, but on the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersWe know that prolific offenders represent only 10% of offenders but account for nearly 50% of all sentences. That clearly cannot continue, which is why I have specifically asked…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersThe hon. Member will know that we retain data on foreign national offenders, and this Government are on track to remove more foreign national offenders this year than in the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersThe impact assessment is done over the usual period of time, but I have committed to review the policy 18 months from the moment it was brought in, which is a commitment that we…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersThe length of sentences, and how to deal with the problem of prolific offending, will be looked at specifically by the independent sentencing review panel. My hon. Friend will…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersYes. The specific problem that the hon. Gentleman refers to, which relates to Serco’s performance and the two tranches of SDS40 releases, has now been resolved. The backlog has…10 Dec 2024HANSARDProlific OffendersYes. There are no additional issues in relation to tagging or the process by which the tagging takes place with Serco, but where there is contract failure by Serco, we will not…10 Dec 2024HANSARDPrison CapacityWe took immediate action to prevent the collapse of the prison system by changing the automatic release point for standard determinate sentences. We are building 14,000 new prison…10 Dec 2024