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Lords Chamber
Better Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) I agree with the reframing of this from rehabilitation, as rehabilitation implies that people were once - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bertin (Con - Life peer) Rehabilitation is not an alternative to justice; it is essential to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tope (LD - Life peer) It must, surely, bring down that figure of 63% of offenders’ sons who apparently become offenders themselves - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Cuts have left offenders without the skills to reintegrate into society. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) fall within the scope of the helpline in the same way as those whose offenders are in custody. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) He was also placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Currently, there exists an asymmetry between offenders and victims. - Speech Link
4: None Offenders often have considerable flexibility to appeal a sentence. - Speech Link
5: None sentences, extended determinate sentences or sentences for offenders of particular concern. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage part two - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) engaging stakeholders during the code consultation.Where services are available and victims and offenders - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is only right and just that offenders pay back the value of what they have stolen to their victims - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) For adult offenders, there is no limit on the value of a single compensation order, and compensation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None explanatory statement This amendment probes the rationale behind restricting the power to order offenders - Speech Link
2: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) Offenders should not be able to undermine the final moment of justice in such a way. - Speech Link
3: None to attend a sentencing hearing applies to offenders aged 18 and above. - Speech Link
4: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) My Lords, briefly, these amendments would treat offenders over the age of 16 in the same way as offenders - Speech Link
5: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Only 59 such offenders were sentenced to six months or less.Those statistics all involve adult offenders - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) But there was an important nuance; even in the Victorian Juvenile Offenders Act 1847 and its spiritual - Speech Link
2: None The key theme is the focus on education, rehabilitation and child welfare. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) They are dealt with through youth courts under a distinct sentencing framework with rehabilitation as - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The current system already prioritises proportionality and rehabilitation, while retaining the capacity - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) Is it the Government’s intention that district judges sitting alone will be able to sentence offenders - Speech Link
2: Lauren Edwards (Lab - Rochester and Strood) What steps he is taking to ensure that education and training programmes support the rehabilitation of - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) expanding prison apprenticeships and prison industries, providing work-ready skills to support rehabilitation - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) To discourage ex-offenders from reoffending, it is crucial that on leaving prison they have a stable - Speech Link
5: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) ensure that probation officers can do what they are trained and want to do, which is to work with offenders - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prison Capacity: Annual Statement - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) to run amok on the streets of this country, as we would have been forced to release thousands of offenders - Speech Link
2: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) They will keep dangerous offenders off our streets, end the revolving door of less serious offenders - Speech Link
3: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) Gentleman also mentioned rehabilitation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) vast majority of young people who come into contact with the youth justice system are low-level offenders - Speech Link
2: None devolved services are the ones most closely linked to preventing youth offending and supporting rehabilitation - Speech Link
3: None have been granted more devolved roles in probation services, enabling localised approaches to rehabilitation - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) these proposals would reduce crime, improve public confidence or deliver better outcomes for young offenders - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) These will explain the reasons that offenders have been sentenced as they have and will enable victims - Speech Link
2: None As part of the process of rehabilitation, it is important for defendants to understand the reasoning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Antisocial Behaviour on Canals and Rivers: Bath - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) Those new powers include a new respect order to ban adult offenders from engaging in specified activities - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am a great believer in rehabilitation and working with young people—they are not all bad. - Speech Link