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HANSARDPrison CapacityWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement about prison capacity in England and Wales. As you know, Mr Speaker, I wanted to make this announcement first in this House.…18 Jul 2024HANSARDPrison CapacityI welcome the shadow Lord Chancellor to his place; we have always worked constructively together wherever appropriate, and I look forward to continuing to do so while he is in…18 Jul 2024HANSARDPrison CapacityI thank my hon. Friend for that question. The situation with IPP prisoners is of great concern, and I know that huge numbers of Members on both sides of this House care about it…18 Jul 2024HANSARDPrison CapacityMy hon. Friend is right that we have broad failure across many of our public services, including within the health service. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for…18 Jul 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis week the chief inspector of prisons found that, at HMP Lewes, the Government’s early release scheme is undermining safety and risk management. In one case, a high-risk…14 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsReport after report; failure after failure. At Parc Prison, nine people have died in just two months. At Bedford, cells were flooded with raw sewage. At Wandsworth, a suspected…14 May 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised Licence: ExtensionHere we go again. Never in this country have a Government been forced to release prisoners more than two months early. This is the price that the public are paying for a justice…08 May 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised Licence: Extension(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make a statement on the expansion of the end of custody supervised licence scheme.08 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Conservative Government promised 20,000 prison places by 2025, but so far they have only delivered under 6,000. The Justice Secretary is letting violent offenders out up to…26 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsBring on the general election and I will happily answer those questions. I am not surprised that the Secretary of State does not want to acknowledge the truth. Probation officers…26 Mar 2024HANSARDPrisons and Probation: Foreign National OffendersI am grateful to the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Late in the hours of yesterday evening, the Government tried to slip out quietly an announcement that…12 Mar 2024HANSARDTime Spent in Cells: Reoffending RatesPrisoners are spending up to 23 hours a day locked up in their cells as a direct result of overcrowding and the prisons capacity crisis caused by this Government. However, I hear…20 Feb 2024HANSARDTime Spent in Cells: Reoffending RatesWhile prisoners are serving their sentence, they are not being allowed to leave their cell, but ironically the Government are also releasing some of them early. Despite a…20 Feb 2024HANSARDCustodial and Community SentencesMany, many more offenders will be serving their sentences in the community as a result of the measures in the upcoming Sentencing Bill. We all know that the Government have had to…09 Jan 2024HANSARDCustodial and Community SentencesThat is a four-year-old announcement dressed up as something new and, given the extensive changes in the Sentencing Bill, I am afraid that it will just not cut it. Under the…09 Jan 2024HANSARD Sentencing BillWe are here to debate the Second Reading of the Sentencing Bill, but it is impossible to consider the Bill properly without acknowledging what lies behind it: the prison capacity…06 Dec 2023HANSARDHillsborough: Bishop James Jones ReportIt is customary to thank the Government for advance sight of the statement, but given the gravity of this matter, the fact that the report being responded to has been with the…06 Dec 2023HANSARD Victims and Prisoners BillIt is a pleasure to speak in this somewhat short Third Reading debate on this Bill. I start by paying tribute to my colleagues who did the lion’s share of the work before my team…04 Dec 2023HANSARD Prison CapacityAs the Secretary of State acknowledged, to govern is to choose. His Government have chosen to fail victims and to fail the public. and to offer too little, too late to turn our…16 Oct 2023HANSARD Prison CapacityThank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. The Secretary of State was on his feet for about 15 minutes, his…16 Oct 2023