Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Phillip Lee and Andrew Selous

Tuesday 5th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Dr Phillip Lee]

There is no intention, in the longer term, to increase the number of young people we lock up. Indeed, our intention is to reduce the number of young people we lock up, and that is why we are changing the environment with the introduction of secure schools.

[Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con)]

While we regularly praise the likes of Greggs, Timpson and Halfords for the great work they do in employing ex-offenders, do Ministers agree that the time has now come no longer to allow employers that have made a blanket refusal to employ any ex-offenders to carry on such an approach in secret?