Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to prevent people being released from prison without support because they could not be transferred to a resettlement prison.

As a result of the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, for the first time all adult offenders are entitled to receive a resettlement service before being released from custody. The contracts with Community Rehabilitation Companies provide for such services even where a prisoner has not been transferred to a designated resettlement prison prior to release.