Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Shabana Mahmood and John Milne

Tuesday 8th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Shabana Mahmood]

I believe the Prisons Minister may well be attending the event that the right hon. Member mentioned. I will happily pick that up in my regular conversations with trade union officials. She is right to highlight the scale of violence across our prison system. We are already taking measures, and I hope that the combination of sentencing reform and investment in our prisons will bring down the level of violence we are currently seeing.

[John Milne (Horsham) (LD)]

14. What steps she is taking to tackle the backlog in the courts.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Shabana Mahmood and John Milne

Tuesday 3rd June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Shabana Mahmood]

I think the country will hold to account those responsible for the absolute mess that this Government inherited. Nowhere in the right hon. Gentleman’s question did he acknowledge that under the Government of which he was a member and for which he campaigned, prisons were brought to the brink of collapse. These reforms are necessary. This Government will not allow our prisons to run out of places—the one thing everybody agrees we cannot allow to happen. The only reason that is a possibility is because of the Tory party.

[John Milne (Horsham) (LD)]

4. When the Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services plans to meet the hon. Member for Horsham’s constituent Andrew Turner to discuss locked child trust funds.