Prison Officers Association: Withdrawal from Voluntary Tasks Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers Association: Withdrawal from Voluntary Tasks

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Tuesday 28th February 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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The precipitous action, if I understand the hon. Gentleman correctly, is unlawful strike action, which will do nothing to make our prisons safe.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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It would be easier to manage the 85,000 prisoners in our jails if we did not have to incarcerate 10,000 foreign nationals who should be in prison in their own country. This week Jamaica rejected the Government’s offer of returning its foreign nationals. What steps are the Government taking to get these people back to secure detention in their own countries?

Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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Since 2010 we have deported 33,000 prisoners —5,810 in 2015-16 alone—to their home country. There is a lot more work that we can do, and I am engaging directly with the Governments of the top 10 countries from which foreign national prisoners come in order to speed up the process.