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HANSARDPrisons StrategyI am mindful of your call for shorter answers, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I cannot set out in detail everything we are doing, but I hope I can give the hon. Lady confidence that…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyVery much so. We want to encourage earned autonomy and we want the best practices to be shared across the prison estate. Last week I was delighted to meet, with the Deputy Prime…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind invitation and look forward to seeing how Banksy might represent Reading prison in future artworks, but I regret to say that as the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI very much understand my hon. Friend’s concern for his constituents and desire for some certainty. I cannot give an undertaking today but am happy to meet him to discuss the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI thank my right hon. and learned Friend for all the work he has done on this issue. We are very appreciative of his commitment to it and of his particular commitment to…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI thank the hon. Lady for her question, because it gives me an opportunity to reassure the House about the construction of the new female facilities. We want these new facilities…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI regret that I am unable to make that commitment at the Dispatch Box, but I join my right hon. Friend in the principle that we want our prisons to be as effective and as…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is mischaracterising the success of the X-ray scanners. I have seen how they work at Lincoln, and they discover objects concealed within a person that would not…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyMy hon. Friend is a staunch defender of his constituents and assiduous in advocating their concerns about this and other matters. I cannot comment further on the particular…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPrisons StrategyI am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady, whom I welcome to her new position. If I may, however, I will start by correcting some of the statements that she has just made. In case…07 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI entirely understand the concern of the hon. Gentleman and, indeed, the House about the situation in Afghanistan, but the reality is as it is on the ground. We wish it were…22 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady will know that I cannot answer that question on the Floor of the House, but I am very happy to take the name of her constituent afterwards. I have to emphasise,…22 Nov 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeI know the hon. Gentleman well, and I know that he will not have overlooked the 15,000 people whom we evacuated during the emergency conditions of Operation Pitting. Of course,…22 Nov 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeThrough the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme, the UK will relocate up to 20,000 at-risk people in the coming years. We are working urgently across Government and with partners…22 Nov 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeThe hon. Lady has articulated the real dangers that many are facing in Afghanistan; I think we can all agree on that. The reality is, however, that the ever-changing security…22 Nov 2021HANSARD Prison Officers: Pension AgeI do not want to waste time by repeating myself, but I will meet the POA. I cannot agree on the Floor of the Chamber to negotiate, but I hope that the POA, having met me,…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Prison Officers: Pension AgeIf the hon. Lady is quick.16 Nov 2021HANSARD Prison Officers: Pension AgeI will finish, if I may, because I want to deal with the points about security and I must finish at 5.48 pm in order to give my hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Prison Officers: Pension AgeI am conscious that I have only four minutes, so I will continue. My hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey has already made the point that we have tried to make…16 Nov 2021HANSARD Prison Officers: Pension AgeAs I have said, I have already met the Prisoner Officers Association. I hope I was very clear when we first met that this was the beginning of a constructive and positive…16 Nov 2021