Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Shailesh Vara and Graham P Jones

Tuesday 8th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Vara]

I have met my hon. Friend and debated this matter with him, and I can assure him that we are giving serious consideration to all the information that he and his colleagues have given us regarding his local court.

[Graham Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab)]

T9. Has the Minister read the recent “Locked out” report from Barnardo’s, which claims that changes to the incentives and earned privileges scheme mean that a child’s right to see their father is being withheld in order to enforce discipline? Does he think that this is good for the 200,000 children who have a parent in jail?