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Written Question
Crime: Victims
Tuesday 18th May 2021

Asked by: John Lamont (Conservative - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

What progress he has made with the Home Secretary on bringing forward legislative proposals to support victims.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

This Government is committed to protecting the public and cutting crime. This means ensuring that victims are supported at every stage of the criminal justice system, so that justice can be secured, victims and the public protected, and offenders punished.

The Victims’ Bill, announced in the Queens’ Speech, will enshrine victims’ rights in law, hold agencies to account for delivering those rights and set expectations for the standard and availability of victim support.

I am working closely with the Home Secretary in preparation for the consultation on this Bill which will take place later this year.


Written Question
Prison Accommodation
Tuesday 8th October 2019

Asked by: John Lamont (Conservative - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

What steps his Department is taking to increase prison capacity.

Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The Prime Minister has made clear his focus on tackling crime and announced in August an investment of up to £2.5 billion to transform the prison estate and provide 10,000 additional prison places.

Our recent Spending Round settlement provides the funding for MoJ to begin delivering this commitment and outline planning permission has been approved for a new prison at Full Sutton.

The 10,000 places are additional to the 3,500 places, which we have begun at Wellingborough; that we will start building at Glen Parva next year, and; that we have already built at HMP Stocken.