Justice

Questions answered by this department

• 20. How many prisoners released under the early release scheme have since been recalled to prison.
• Today, the Government will let another 650 criminals out of prison early, on top of 1,350 last month and tens of thousan
• Does the Secretary of State accept that the recall figures would be even higher if it were not for the fact that, as rep
• Offender management statistics show that, so far this year in England, there have been more licence recalls than prisone
• I thank the Minister for the fantastic progress made. What steps is the Department taking to ensure that foreign nationa
• 8. What steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of the prison estate.
• I welcome the Government focusing prisons on rehabilitation, and on better education, training and support to help peopl
• The public are safer when people leave prisons with the skills to find work and stay out of crime. Despite the Coates re
• 10. Whether he is taking steps to reform the family court system.
• I would like to ask about my constituent Ranem. When a family court told her that her son could not be taken out of the
• 2. What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the handling of sexual offences
• Diolch yn fawr iawn, Lefarydd. Tackling reoffending requires rehabilitation, but the Wales Governance Centre’s latest re
• An issue that crops up regularly in Northern Ireland is the searching of the £400 million digital patient record system
• The ex-partner of one of my constituents is subject to a non-molestation order and has been charged with stalking. He re
• 1. What steps he is taking to improve rehabilitative programmes in prisons.
• My constituent Sarah Johnson showed remarkable courage in helping to convict a physiotherapist who sexually assaulted he
• Many ex-prisoners experience challenges after prison, particularly when trying to reintegrate into society, which is rea
• I am grateful to the Minister for meeting one of my constituents recently to hear at first hand about the devastating im
• The Ministry’s own figures show that care cases are again slowing down in the family courts; just over a third hit the 2
• 11. What progress his Department has made on utilising AI for innovation in legal services.
• Can the Minister reassure my constituents, who are in their 90s and are the victims of an alleged large fraud, that the
• Victims of crime have asked the Lord Chancellor to publish criminal conviction data by nationality. Will he do so?
• I will push back gently on the Minister’s assertion of 3,300 new prison places, knowing full well that they were all app
• It is obvious that the Minister does not want to put on record and own up to the fact that those convicted of coercive a
• Eighteen months ago a woman in my constituency was assaulted at a local train station, but with limited CCTV footage no
• Does the Minister recognise the devastating impact of delays in serious sexual abuse cases? One such case, which was bro
• The Russell Brand verdict surprised nobody, and all those who allowed his behaviour to go unchecked should reflect on th
• Probation services play a vital role in protecting the public, reducing reoffending and supporting rehabilitation. As th
• T4. Two months ago, I wrote to the Secretary of State asking him to confirm how many prisoners will be released under th
• It is rare that we can achieve cross-party consensus in this place, but I think we have consensus that no party here wou
• I thank the Minister for setting out comprehensively the Government’s end-to-end approach. The Minister will know all to
• The outgoing chief inspector of prisons said last week that organised gangs are using drones to smuggle up to 10 kg of d
• I thank the Minister for that answer. Sarah Steele was strangled and allegedly sexually assaulted by a US fighter pilot
• My constituent, Mackenzie, who is a pupil at Peter Symonds sixth-form college in Winchester and is here in the Gallery t
• Employment tribunal backlogs have reached record levels, with more than 70,000 open single claims and some hearings outs
• 7. Whether his Department plans to review licence and probation supervision arrangements for convicted sex offenders fol
• Victims of coercion, abuse and assault have been very much in the news recently, but there are many such victims whose s
• 5. What steps his Department is taking to reduce the court backlog.
• I thank the Minister for her answer. The Labour Government inherited record backlogs in the Crown court system, with vic
• During the course of the Sentencing Act 2026, I asked the former Lord Chancellor to reassure me about the Probation Serv
• 19. What steps he is taking to improve programmes that reduce reoffending.
• In 2011, there were 230 firms and 781 accredited legal representatives undertaking mental health legal aid work. There a
• T7. Last week the Government announced their Visitor Levy (England) Bill, which will create a number of new offences, in
• I thank the Minister for agreeing to meet with some of my constituents, who I saw again yesterday morning. Will the Gove
• 13. What steps his Department is taking to help people who have experienced abuse to access support services.
• T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
• Domestic violence campaigners and charities, including Kaleidoscopic UK, have warned that post-separation abuse is too o
• The ability of powerful men to exert control over and exploit women is again at the forefront of our minds. But it is no
• Despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending refusal, a third prison is under construction at Ulnes Walton in my South
• 21. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle violence against women and girls through the criminal