Privatised Probation System

The National Audit Office report on probation privatisation is another damning indictment of the ...

As you would anticipate, Mr Speaker, we do not feel that this is simply an ideological choice bet...

In the field of justice policy, as in the field of health policy, arguments are being reduced to ...

Absolutely. As my right hon. and learned Friend points out, if we are to reduce the number of peo...

In Scotland, the probation service role is carried out by criminal justice social workers, who ar...

As hon. Members would expect me to say, these things have more nuances and complexities. The basi...

I am very slightly disappointed that my hon. Friend referred only to the Peterborough pilot, whic...

First, I pay tribute to my hon. and gallant Friend for the work he did on piloting many of these ...

I know that the Minister has done a lot of work on brain injury in prisons. Is it not vital, wher...

First, I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for the work he has done on acquired brain injury. As ...

Does the Minister agree that, although CRCs need to improve and perform better, we need to focus ...

That is absolutely right. The key thing is learning what works and how to do it in a way that wor...

The problems with Transforming Rehabilitation were entirely predicted in 2014, so the NAO report ...

That is a very interesting proposal. The London CRC attempted to do it by setting up a programme ...

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No less celebrated a denizen of the House than the Chair of the Justice Select Committee is among...

I am very grateful, Mr Speaker.

I welcome the Minister’s frank and honest response to the f...

Of the two arguments, I think that the second is the stronger. The fact that CRCs are not involve...

The reckless fragmentation of the probation service back in 2014 has predictably led to this sorr...

I absolutely agree. I could not have put it better. That is exactly what we are trying to achieve...

The Minister has engaged fully with the Justice Committee’s report, which our Chair mentioned a m...

One of the key measures in Transforming Rehabilitation was the supervision of 40,000 people who h...

Order. Speaking to school students in Twickenham on Friday, and subsequently giving a talk at Roy...

This situation is indeed shocking. [Laughter.] I do wonder: either very senior civil servants fol...

I look at this very seriously.

It is very serious.

Yes, it is. Big lessons need to be drawn from it, not just for the purpose of probation reforms b...

In Chelmsford, we have a very busy prison and people want to know that when people leave prison t...

First, may I pay tribute as always to my hon. Friend, who has been a real supporter of the prison...

The National Audit Office says there is limited time to procure the new contracts, that persistin...

First, wherever we go with this new system, we will have a much more integrated system: it will c...

The Minister will probably be aware that the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke very much wante...

That is a good reminder. The former Home Secretary Charles Clarke and my right hon. and learned F...

Volumes for offences were 48% lower than expected; community rehabilitation companies had losses ...

These questions of accountability are quite difficult for me to answer. Normally, I answer by off...

Does the Minister agree that the task of rehabilitation can be helped enormously by looking at th...

Yes, we can learn a great deal from Germany and Denmark, and indeed in some of our most successfu...

I genuinely have sympathy for the Minister: he is the man with the shovel and brush following a h...

We will look very carefully at the contracts. Along with the issues that we will be examining, th...

I hope that my hon. Friend does not resign, because he is doing a very good job in his post and I...

It is great to have an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of our probation hostels. Some of t...

I have three prisons in my constituency, and it is really tragic to see what has happened to the ...

I absolutely agree that we need to resource the service properly, and I absolutely agree that we ...

The longer a prisoner serves in jail, the less likely he or she is to reoffend. That is simply a ...

There is an issue here of correlation and causation. It is true that people who serve 40 or 50-ye...

After the failure of Working Links and in the light of the National Audit Office’s damning report...

The first thing is to absolutely reassure the hon. Gentleman that we are looking very carefully a...

The Minister’s reply seemed to mention a £700 million underspend in the system. Will he redirect ...

I pay tribute to Care after Combat’s work, and the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. ...

Following the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner), ...

No. Respectfully, that is not the fundamental lesson here. The lesson is that reducing reoffendin...

I rise as the co-chair of the justice unions parliamentary group. Friday’s NAO report identifies ...

I am glad that the hon. Lady welcomes the decision in Wales, where it was right to bring things u...

My constituent Sam Cook was stabbed to death last year. His killer was on licence having been rel...

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for raising that tragic case, and I am happy to sit down with...

I thank the Minister for his responses. Some 69% of females in the judicial system have mental he...

I am pleased to have my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care along...