Found: Correspondence from Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 22

Found: Correspondence from Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 17

Found: Correspondence from Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 17

Found: Letter dated 17 July 2025 from Lord Timpson Minister of State for Justice to the Chair, Justice and Home

Found: Correspondence from Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, dated 8 July

Found: We look forward to learning more about the review of prison officer training carried out by Lord Timpson

Found: Lord Timpson: There are drugs in every prison.

Found: Lord Timpson: It is more HMPPS.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions she has had with Serco on electronic tagging.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Lord Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, has met regularly with senior representatives from Serco. The most recent of these meetings took place on Tuesday 22 July 2025. At that meeting, the Minister welcomed the improvements observed in Serco’s recent performance but emphasised the need for continued progress at pace to meet the standards set out in the contract. Serco’s performance continues to be monitored closely and we will not hesitate to apply financial penalties should our high-performance targets not be met.

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Found: Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Lord Timpson, said:  The ease with which drones

Found: Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Minister, Lord Timpson said:   Drug and alcohol addiction

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Found: From: Ministry of Justice and Lord Timpson OBE Published 31 July 2025 Get emails about this

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Found: Lord Timpson OBE, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Individuals: ■

<p>I don't agree with that characterisation at all. The Deputy First Minister had an extremely good meeting with the Lord Chancellor, in which she authorised officials to work together on the beginnings of the steps for the devolution of youth justice. That work is going on apace. We've appointed a head of youth justice devolution here in the Welsh Government in order to push that work on apace. Various other meetings on probation are occurring.&nbsp;Myself and the Minister for Social Justice are going up to visit the Manchester model for probation during August, for example, with a view to looking at that.</p>
<p>Lord Timpson has done an enormous amount of work on the absolute shambles the Conservative Government left the court and prison system in. They should be hanging their head in shame, as opposed to the nonsense we actually get. You've only got to look at any of the prisons—I have one in my own constituency—to see the terrible overcrowding and dreadful, dreadful outcome of terrible<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> years of failure to invest.</span></p>

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">years of failure to invest.</span> Lord Timpson has been concentrating on that. To be fair to him, the devolution process is not within his remit. He's a Minister looking very specifically at some things. It is not our experience that that's what's happening. The manifesto of the UK Government said that it would explore the devolution of youth justice and probation, and we are doing that. I am confident that we will&nbsp;get the steps towards that that we expected in this first year and a bit of the UK Labour Government, and I'm sure that that journey will continue.</p>