Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Rankin and Lindsay Hoyle

Tuesday 22nd April 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call the shadow Minister.

[Jack Rankin (Windsor) (Con)]

Personal protective equipment is now worn in all kinds of jobs where people may have to deal with dangerous situations. As Professor Acheson has said, it is

“staggering that frontline police staff working in conditions of far greater peril…are not issued with stab vests capable of stopping an attack with a bladed weapon.”

We should all be ensuring that our prison officers come home safe to their loved ones. Unions have called for this measure, and I can assure the Minister that they have the full support of those on the Opposition side of the House. Will he act—not in two months or six months, but now—to protect prison officers before it is too late?