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HANSARDProtesters: 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 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 LewesSince the disappointing inspection in 2023, healthcare improvement funding has been put in place, as has mobile phone detection equipment to disrupt illicit activity. HMP Lewes’s…03 Jun 2025HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationMy hon. Friend can write to me with his list of potholes, and we will see what we can do.03 Jun 2025HANSARDCommunity Accommodation Service: Tier 3It is important that the Probation Service deals with any concerns promptly and effectively. The Department wrote to the hon. Lady on 20 April with further details in relation to…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 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 2025HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationThe hon. Member is right to highlight dyslexia, and neurodiversity is common among people in our prisons. That is why we have neurodiversity officers in each prison to ensure that…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 2025HANSARDReoffending: Young OffendersThe Government are determined to reduce youth reoffending as part of our safer streets mission. Despite the fiscal challenges we inherited, we have increased our core funding to…03 Jun 2025HANSARDProtesters: SentencingThe right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of our democracy, as my hon. Friend rightly says, and this Government will protect and preserve that right. The post-legislative…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsWe are always alert to the need to assess how policies apply to the wider public and victims. That is important.15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsI hear the right hon. Gentleman’s question, and I will write to him.15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsIt is clear that tagging technology has huge potential. A recent study has shown a 20% reduction in reoffending by offenders wearing curfew tags, but my hon. Friend is right to…15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsMy hon. Friend is exactly right to point to that planning application going forward. It is excellent news, and shows that we are cracking on with the job.15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsI am very sorry to hear about the cases mentioned by my hon. Friend. I am happy to meet him to take the matter further.15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsI have carefully gone through the exclusions from this measure, and emphasised the importance of good professional bodies continuing to apply proper risk assessments. When risk…15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsI certainly hope that all those things will be looked at by the independent sentencing review. The mandating of the 14-day fixed-term release was a measure taken by the previous…15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsThis is not about releasing people from prison earlier.15 May 2025HANSARD Recalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsWe speak to the Victims’ Commissioner regularly; the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones), is speaking to them later…15 May 2025