Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jake Richards and Laura Kyrke-Smith

Tuesday 19th May 2026 Commons Chamber

[Jake Richards]

This Government are undertaking the biggest prison building programme since the Victorian era. We will be building 13,000 new places by 2031. We inherited a prison capacity crisis from the Conservatives, so it takes some chutzpah for them to start asking questions about prison building. We are committed to the prison building programme that we announced in 2024, and we are confident that we will match it. We are fixing the mess that they created.

[Laura Kyrke-Smith (Aylesbury) (Lab)]

8. What progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on the Government's knife crime strategy.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jake Richards and Laura Kyrke-Smith

Tuesday 16th September 2025 Commons Chamber

[Laura Kyrke-Smith (Aylesbury) (Lab)]

T9. The formidable team at Aylesbury Women’s Aid report continued severe delays in the charging and prosecution of domestic abuse cases. We are in touch about one survivor who lives in constant fear of her abuser, who turns up at her house and taps on her windows at night, despite a warrant being out for his arrest. What steps has the Minister taken to ensure that survivors are not left living in fear while they wait for justice?

[Jake Richards]

My hon. Friend raises a really important point. The Sentencing Bill, which we will debate later today, has really important measures that will protect victims of domestic abuse and ensure that victims are at the heart of our criminal justice policy, as well as probation services.