Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Huw Irranca-Davies and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 8th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Andrew Selous)]

I very much agree with my hon. Friend and welcome that point. He will be aware of the importance we are placing on improving education in prisons with the Dame Sally Coates review, but it must follow on through the gate, so that, for example, courses started in prison are completed in the community if they have not already been finished.

[Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) (Lab)]

T6. Further to my earlier intervention, may I simply remind the Minister of the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of pounds that have been spent in recent years on the courts in Pontypridd and Bridgend? He urges me to consider the upgrading. They have been upgraded; do not close them.