Rehabilitation of Offenders

Baroness Bray of Coln Excerpts

Thursday 9th May 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We are grateful to the hon. Gentleman and will move on.

[Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton) (Con)]

I welcome the measures announced by my right hon. Friend to help young offenders. Does he agree that we can provide help through smaller charitable and voluntary organisations, such as Action Acton in my constituency, which does excellent work? Does he also recognise that some smaller organisations find that waiting a long time for payment by results stretches their resources to breaking point?

[Chris Grayling]

My hon. Friend makes an important point. We intend to ensure that any passing of risk down a supply chain is done in a transparent way. We will do everything we can to protect the interests of smaller organisations, but they must take advantage of that protection and not simply sign up to deals that they cannot afford.