Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between John Lamont and Nicholas Dakin(2 days ago)
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Sir Nicholas Dakin
All options are on the table. His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service introduced a head of education, skills and work into every prison to ensure that, across the estate, a senior member of prison staff is responsible for improving the quality of education provision. My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to Ofsted reports, but there has been an increase in the overall number of “good” ratings achieved through the inspections. This is work in progress. We need to do better, as she says, and that is what we are determined to do.
John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) (Con)
Recalled Offenders: Sentencing Limits
Debate between John Lamont and Nicholas Dakin(1 month, 3 weeks ago)
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Sir Nicholas Dakin
I am very sorry to hear about the cases mentioned by my hon. Friend. I am happy to meet him to take the matter further.
John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) (Con)
The Victims’ Commissioner has warned that freeing prisoners early who have been shown to pose a reoffending risk to the public will
“place victims and the wider public at an unnecessary risk of harm.”
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner has said that it is “simply unacceptable”. What discussions did the Government have with those two commissioners before making the announcement?
Sir Nicholas Dakin
We speak to the Victims’ Commissioner regularly; the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones), is speaking to them later today.