Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Ashley Fox Excerpts
Tuesday 3rd June 2025

(3 days, 16 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Yes, the Government will look further at those proposals. The Women’s Justice Board has been created to do exactly that sort of work, and we also have an excellent Victims Minister in my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones).

Ashley Fox Portrait Sir Ashley Fox (Bridgwater) (Con)
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In March, the Government announced that girls will no longer be placed in young offenders institutions. How will the Minister monitor the implementation of that policy, and how will he ensure the public are protected from the small number of violent girls who need to be detained?

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Every week I get a report of the number of girls in our youth estate, so I am monitoring it. There are no girls in a YOI, and there have not been since the girl who was in a YOI moved out soon after we came into government.