Women: Deaths in Custody

Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall Excerpts

Tuesday 16th November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall]

My Lords, in view of the pressure that the prison budget is liable to come under, can the Minister say whether the sorts of useful interventions that come through education, and particularly the kind of education that comes through the arts organisations in prisons, will be protected? It has a particularly beneficial effect on the sort of prisoners she has been talking about.

[Baroness Northover]

The key thing is to cut reoffending and to rehabilitate. That is the best way to protect the public and to redirect those women to other things. All of these aspects will be looked at in terms of their efficacy.