Oral Answers to Questions

Jayne Kirkham Excerpts

Tuesday 28th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[John Whitby (Derbyshire Dales) (Lab)]

3. What steps her Department is taking to support female offenders.

[Jayne Kirkham (Truro and Falmouth) (Lab/Co-op)]

4. What steps her Department is taking to support female offenders.

[Paul Davies (Colne Valley) (Lab)]

13. What steps her Department is taking to support female offenders.

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[Sir Nicholas Dakin]

We know that family support is very important to women in custody, which is why grant funding has been awarded to the charity Parents And Children Together—PACT—to provide a resettlement family engagement worker in HMP Foston Hall, as well as in seven other women’s prisons.

[Jayne Kirkham]

Gaie Delap, the mother of a constituent of mine, was recalled to prison just before Christmas, despite complying with her curfew conditions, because the Government’s electronic monitoring services contractor could not fulfil its contract and find a tag to fit a frail 78-year-old woman. Can the Minister and the Secretary of State help to find a solution so that Gaie Delap can be released on her curfew, and so that women are not disadvantaged by the failings of the contractor’s electronic monitoring system?