Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Crispin Blunt and Karen Lumley

Tuesday 28th June 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Blunt]

There is a clear case for bringing the responsibilities of the Youth Justice Board within the Ministry of Justice, and for making Ministers directly accountable for youth justice. We are going to reintroduce that case to the House, and I am sure that it will command the House’s support.

[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

T6. Last week I visited HMP Hewell in Worcestershire, where I met the restorative justice manager Clifford Grimason. He showed me the excellent work that has been done there with prisoners. Will the Secretary of State join me in commending HMP Hewell, and Cliff and his team, who have been working together with Conservative-controlled Redditch borough council on innovative schemes to help get prisoners ready to go out into the world of work?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Crispin Blunt and Karen Lumley

Tuesday 29th March 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Blunt]

Penalties are one of the many issues we are looking at. I am pleased to say that my hon. Friend and I will have the opportunity to address them more fully tomorrow in Westminster Hall.

[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

13. How many prisoners convicted of violent offences and released under the early release scheme between 2007 and 2010 have since been returned to prison.

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[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

T8. Given the great work that West Mercia probation trust does in Redditch with the payback scheme, which I know the Minister has also visited, will he reconsider the new form of payback contracts, which cover large parts of the country but not necessarily our local communities?

[Mr Blunt]

Although I have seen that good work and applaud it, I will have to disappoint my hon. Friend. There is no prospect of our revisiting the contract arrangements that have been briefed out and presented to probation trusts and the private sector. That competition will progress.