Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Gauke and Julia Lopez

Tuesday 23rd January 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Gauke]

First, as I said a moment or so ago, we are looking to say more about domestic violence in the near future. This is a matter that the Government take very seriously across the board. On legal aid, as the Under-Secretary of State, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for South East Cambridgeshire, has already pointed out, we are currently undertaking a review.

[Julia Lopez (Hornchurch and Upminster) (Con)]

We know that conversion to a radical brand of Islamist thinking too often occurs in a prison setting. Will the Minister update the House on the work being done to address this issue and set out the procedures to vet religious officials working with the vulnerable prison population?