Found: Correspondence to Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 21 May

Found: Correspondence to Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 21 May

Found: Letter from Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Justice to Lord Strathclyde, Chair of the Constitution

Found: Adrian Usher: Lord Timpson has had some success, and I was able to congratulate him.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Timpson on 13 May (HL Deb col 2055), how much of the extra £1 billion for policing will be allocated to Northern Ireland.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

As set out in the 2025-26 final police funding settlement, overall funding for the policing system in England and Wales will be up to £19.6 billion, an increase of up to £1.1 billion when compared to the 2024-25 funding settlement

This funding is for England and Wales. Policing is devolved in Northern Ireland and so the Barnett formula was applied in the normal way to the Home Office DEL budget, providing Barnett consequentials to the Northern Ireland Executive.

The Northern Ireland Executive's Phase 1 Spending Review settlement is the largest in real terms of any settlement since devolution, at £18.2 billion in 2025-26, including an additional £1.5 billion through the operation of the Barnett formula.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Timpson on 7 May (HL6683), what potential prison sites they are considering for the 14,000 new prison places by 2031.

Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The prison population has nearly doubled in the past three decades, with just 500 extra prison places added in the last 14 years. To put an end to this crisis, the Government confirmed plans to invest £4.7 billion more in prison building, putting the Government on track to open 14,000 places by 2031. This will be the largest expansion of the prison estate since the Victorians. Since July 2024, 2,400 places have already been opened.

As outlined in the December 2024 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, this Government is committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places through the 20,000 prison place programmes. Delivery will be achieved through the construction of new prisons, the expansion and refurbishment of the existing estate and temporary accommodation. A breakdown of the prison build programmes by region and build type can be found within the Capacity Strategy.

The construction of four new prisons will deliver c.6,500 of the remaining 14,000 places. This includes the recently delivered HMP Millsike, which officially opened in March 2025. It also includes a new prison in Leicestershire which has full planning permission, a new prison in Buckinghamshire which has outline planning permission and a new prison in Lancashire which also has outline planning permission.

Found: provide for a statutory accountable person to oversee the transfer.241 The Prisons Minister, Lord Timpson

Found: provide for a statutory accountable person to oversee the transfer.241 The Prisons Minister, Lord Timpson

Found: gifts only) Shabana Mahmood Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Lord Timpson

Found: Value of Hospitality (£) Shabana Mahmood Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Lord Timpson

Found: Value of Hospitality (£) Shabana Mahmood Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Lord Timpson

Found: gifts only) Shabana Mahmood Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Lord Timpson

Found: We also heard representations in oral evidence from: • Lord Timpson, the Minister of State for Prisons

Found: We also heard representations in oral evidence from: • Lord Timpson, the Minister of State for Prisons

<p>Item 5.3, correspondence from the Equality and Social Justice Committee to the Cabinet Secretary, Trefnydd and Chief Whip on scrutiny sessions on prisons and criminal justice.&nbsp;The Equality and Social Justice Committee informs the Cabinet Secretary, Trefnydd and Chief Whip that the back-to-back scrutiny sessions on criminal justice, involving both the Welsh Government and the UK Government, which were scheduled to take place on 19 May, have been postponed as the Minister&nbsp;of State for&nbsp;Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Lord Timpson, can no longer make the session due to parliamentary commitments relating to the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill. Unless Members have any comments we’ll move on.</p>
<p>Research&nbsp;report by PolicyWISE and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy: 'A More Collaborative Way of Governing? Why the UK’s Council of the Nations and Regions Matters'.&nbsp;This an executive summary of the research report on the Council of the Nations and Regions, which has been published and sent to Members by PolicyWISE and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. The report examines the UK’s inter-governmental relationships and structures that have been in place since the election of the new UK Government in 2024. Unless Members have any comments they wish to make, we’ll note this and move onto the next item.</p>
<p>Item 5.5, correspondence with the First Minister of Wales, an invitation to give evidence.&nbsp;The First Minister responds to our invitation to attend one of our meetings to discuss matters within our remit for which she holds responsibility. The First Minister has declined the invitation and set out the reasons for her decision. Shall we defer discussion of this to the private session? Yes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Welsh Government’s Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 5) on the Data (Use and Access) Bill.&nbsp;Members are invited to note this supplementary legislative consent memorandum, which was laid on Friday. Members will be aware that the Senedd agreed a legislative consent motion in Plenary on 6 May. It is not clear from the supplementary legislative consent memorandum whether the Welsh Government will be seeking a debate on a further consent motion. Are Members content to note this?</p>