Catherine McKinnell

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne North

Government roles held

Written answers given

• I thank the Minister for agreeing to meet with some of my constituents, who I saw again yesterday morning. Will the Gove
• During the course of the Sentencing Act 2026, I asked the former Lord Chancellor to reassure me about the Probation Serv
• 7. Whether his Department plans to review licence and probation supervision arrangements for convicted sex offenders fol
• 8. What steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of the prison estate.
• I thank the Minister for the fantastic progress made. What steps is the Department taking to ensure that foreign nationa
• I will push back gently on the Minister’s assertion of 3,300 new prison places, knowing full well that they were all app
• 19. What steps he is taking to improve programmes that reduce reoffending.
• This week is the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers’ annual Respect Week to raise awareness of the impacts o
• The outgoing chief inspector of prisons said last week that organised gangs are using drones to smuggle up to 10 kg of d
• To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the three most recent riots that took place in prisons or you
• To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 2 November 2026 to Question 39138 on Prisons:
• 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
• 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
• The Minister says that the Government are building new prison places, yet she will be aware that there are fewer prison
• Between May and August this year, Kevin Brown committed eight burglaries in Hartlepool, targeting businesses and chariti
• It is bad enough that dangerous criminals are being released early, but my constituents are frankly terrified that these
• Serco continues to be awarded lucrative Government contracts despite repeated failures, while probation officers have be
• I welcome the fact that the Government are experimenting with a scheme of tagging prisoners at the point of release, but
• When Pentonville Prison was built in 1842, I do not imagine anybody expected that today it would have twice the number o
• The issue of electronic monitoring does not concern only those on early release. Michele, a victim of domestic abuse, ha
• I thank the Minister for the groundbreaking work of her Department in tagging prisoners before release, but will she upd
• The Lord Chancellor recently addressed Napo’s conference—I was listening in, as I was speaking afterwards—and he told pr
• Can the Minister confirm that criminals will not get tagged if they are classed as homeless? At the weekend, it was reve
• A Lords Committee criticised the Ministry of Justice under the previous Government for reappointing the contractors afte
• I have heard from far too many worried victims and parents of young victims in Yeovil about how much anxiety the potenti
• One former Conservative Minister wrote a book that discussed the prison system’s failure to reform. Will the Minister co
• The Government have not yet set out the number of domestic abusers who have been released under the early release scheme
• I speak regularly to victims of crime and their families in Harlow, and I find some of their stories absolutely heartbre
• Will the Minister please tell the House how many people who should be wearing an electronic tag are wandering around our
• I thank the Minister for her very comprehensive answers. Electronic monitoring of offenders can be a useful tool to mana

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