Secretary of State for Justice

Questions answered by this department

• You would not believe, Mr Speaker, listening to the Minister that the numbers of prison places and prison officers are a
• Victims should not have to make their lives smaller, looking over their shoulder because offenders are free to roam; it
• The Minister says that the Government are building new prison places, yet she will be aware that there are fewer prison
• The Lord Chancellor recently addressed Napo’s conference—I was listening in, as I was speaking afterwards—and he told pr
• The Government have not yet set out the number of domestic abusers who have been released under the early release scheme
• I have heard from far too many worried victims and parents of young victims in Yeovil about how much anxiety the potenti
• Between May and August this year, Kevin Brown committed eight burglaries in Hartlepool, targeting businesses and chariti
• The issue of electronic monitoring does not concern only those on early release. Michele, a victim of domestic abuse, ha
• It is bad enough that dangerous criminals are being released early, but my constituents are frankly terrified that these
• I welcome the fact that the Government are experimenting with a scheme of tagging prisoners at the point of release, but
• A Lords Committee criticised the Ministry of Justice under the previous Government for reappointing the contractors afte
• Over 5,000 offenders went unmonitored in the first half of this year due to serious delays in the tagging system, and in
• I thank the Minister for her responses. Does she agree that more needs to be done to prevent reoffending while offenders
• Serco continues to be awarded lucrative Government contracts despite repeated failures, while probation officers have be
• Will the Minister please tell the House how many people who should be wearing an electronic tag are wandering around our
• When Pentonville Prison was built in 1842, I do not imagine anybody expected that today it would have twice the number o
• Can the Minister confirm that criminals will not get tagged if they are classed as homeless? At the weekend, it was reve
• I thank the Minister for the groundbreaking work of her Department in tagging prisoners before release, but will she upd
• I speak regularly to victims of crime and their families in Harlow, and I find some of their stories absolutely heartbre
• I thank the Minister for her very comprehensive answers. Electronic monitoring of offenders can be a useful tool to mana
• One former Conservative Minister wrote a book that discussed the prison system’s failure to reform. Will the Minister co