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HANSARDProtesters: SentencingThe hon. Member will be reassured to know that we do not have a blasphemy law in this country, and that is the right and proper position.03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending: Young OffendersWe are working across Government to tackle the root causes of youth offending. We are also creating the Young Futures programme, which will have prevention partnerships, so that…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHMP LewesIt is important that HMPPS continues to monitor the prison carefully, and the chief operating officer’s visit on 7 May found a number of further improvements. If the hon.…03 Jun 2025HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationMy hon. Friend highlights another excellent piece of work that is going on, and the difficulties in ensuring that funding is effectively used as we move forward in a difficult…03 Jun 2025HANSARDCommunity Accommodation Service: Tier 3We inherited a system in which far too many people leave prison with no fixed address. Individuals in community accommodation service tier 3 are risk-assessed by probation and…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsCentres such as the one that my hon. Friend describes in her constituency do excellent work and help to reduce youth offending. If she writes to me about the case that she refers…03 Jun 2025HANSARDHMP LewesMy hon. Friend will be well aware that a lot of the information is commercially confidential, but we are investing up to £300 million in 2025-26 to keep our prisons are safe and…03 Jun 2025HANSARDProtesters: SentencingIt is a long-standing tradition in this country that people are free to peacefully protest and demonstrate their views provided they do so within the law. When people break the…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment: Ex-offendersI am very happy to share good practice across Northern Ireland and other regions of the UK, so that we can all learn from one another, and officials meet in the five nations…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment: Ex-offendersMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that securing employment is known to reduce the risk of reoffending significantly. The Minister for prisons in the other place has led a…03 Jun 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection: SentencingWe continue to support IPP offenders through our updated action plan, which contributed to a 9% decrease in IPP offenders in prison in the last year, but we will not put public…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFemale OffendersMy hon. Friend has had a preview of this answer! This Government’s plan to support women is clear and ambitious. The aim is to reduce the number of women going to prison. Our…03 Jun 2025HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationThe hon. Member is right to emphasise all those programmes. They are clearly extremely important, and we publish and monitor a range of performance metrics linked to…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending: Young OffendersThe hon. Lady draws attention to an important issue. Inspections are significant in identifying where additional support and effort are needed. The Department will do everything…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsPrison officers do an amazingly positive job in our prisons. Occasionally, prison officers let themselves down, and those cases are properly looked at. We continue to keep a tight…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFemale OffendersEvery week I get a report of the number of girls in our youth estate, so I am monitoring it. There are no girls in a YOI, and there have not been since the girl who was in a YOI…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment: Ex-offendersThis Government’s plan to support women is clear and ambitious. The aim is to reduce the number of women going to prison. Our Women’s Justice Board will support that. The…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReoffending: Young OffendersI thank my hon. Friend for highlighting the importance of essential organisations such as Young Gloucestershire and the Nelson Trust. I am grateful for the invitation, and ask him…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFemale OffendersYes, the Government will look further at those proposals. The Women’s Justice Board has been created to do exactly that sort of work, and we also have an excellent Victims…03 Jun 2025HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationThe hon. Member is right to highlight the good work going on in her constituency. As I said, I saw trauma-informed activity in operation at HMP Humber. It is something we need to…03 Jun 2025