Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Norris and Kit Malthouse

Tuesday 24th May 2022 Commons Chamber

[Kit Malthouse]

It is very sad that the hon. Lady is not celebrating the achievements of the probation service, which is expanding. We are recruiting 500 new community supervisors so that we can get on top of some of the covid-related backlog in unpaid work. We have to hit 8 million hours and we have thousands of offenders out there in high-vis jackets doing the work, particularly environmental work with organisations such as the Canal & River Trust. When the Prime Minister promoted that scheme, the Opposition condemned it, saying that it was somehow inhuman. Actually, all our communities across the United Kingdom, day in day out, are seeing justice being done by these offenders, and that is set to grow.

[Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op)]

3. What assessment he has made of the impact of court delays on victim attrition rates.