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HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityMy hon. Friend makes a really important point about the relative costs of imprisonment and of punishment out of prison. Delivering the 14,000 prison places that the previous…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityYes, I absolutely can. The whole point of the review is to ensure that the country is never again in a position in which we might run out of prison places, and to ensure that…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I can assure her that I will work closely with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to make sure that there is join-up across…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityThat is exactly the sort of area that the panel will review. Although the reoffending rates for community orders are lower, they are still far too high. I am sure that the…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityWe need to make sure that we have the prison places we need to lock up those who have to be locked up. That is fundamentally non-negotiable. We have to see an increase in prison…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityWe will make sure that the review panel, when it is fully put together, includes somebody with experience of working with victims of crime to make sure that that perspective is…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityI will not pre-empt any future decisions on any particular prison, but I am not ideological about whether a prison is run by the state or privately. There are good prisons of both…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityI can confirm that all sex offences of all types are excluded from the SDS40 measures.22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityI will leave those characterisations to the internal workings of the Conservative party. I consider David Gauke to be a person with deep expertise in this area. He is a former…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityI can assure my hon. Friend that my ministerial team and I have been working closely with our colleagues, primarily in the Home Office, but also across Government. Support for…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityI knew immediately that the right hon. Gentleman was going to ask about the meeting he referenced last week, when I made my other statement. I assure him that I will follow that…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityMy hon. Friend will know that in our safer streets mission, improving confidence in the criminal justice system is one of the key outcomes we are focused on. He is right to make…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityMy hon. Friend raises really important points about how we break the cycle of recalls to prison and ensure that licence conditions are abided by, and about the scope for putting…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityWorking closely with our trade unions is important to us. We have already engaged with the Prison Officers Association. Let me place on record my thanks to all who work in our…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison Capacity PackageAs I informed the House earlier today, this Government inherited a prison system at the point of crisis. Prior to September, the adult male prison estate was running at over 99%…22 Oct 2024HANSARDSentencing Review and Prison CapacityWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on how the Government will address the crisis in our prisons, not just today, but for years to come. The…22 Oct 2024HANSARD Criminal Justice System: CapacityOne of the reasons why I am determined to get to the bottom of what has gone wrong, and to ensure that all errors and accuracy issues are dealt with, is so that we have…17 Oct 2024HANSARD Criminal Justice System: CapacityWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on capacity in the criminal justice system. When this Government came to power, we inherited prisons on the brink of…17 Oct 2024HANSARD Criminal Justice System: CapacityIt is almost as if the shadow Lord Chancellor was not, in fact, a Minister in the Ministry of Justice just a few short months ago. Let me remind him of a few salient facts. First,…17 Oct 2024HANSARD Criminal Justice System: CapacityMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Cases are taking too long to reach conclusion in our courts. We are making some changes, and I am considering what further ones we will need to…17 Oct 2024