Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mary Kelly Foy and David Lammy

Tuesday 11th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Lammy]

That is why we have to put public protection first and there has to be a robust risk assessment. We require the Parole Board in particular to make very sensitive assessments. People cannot leave prison unless we are confident that they will not go on to commit further crimes. That is the assessment we ask the Parole Board and others in the prison system to make.

[Mary Kelly Foy (City of Durham) (Lab)]

9. What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of lowering the pension age of prison officers.