Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Simon Wright and Jeremy Wright

Tuesday 5th February 2013 Commons Chamber

[Simon Wright (Norwich South) (LD)]

T10. What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the potential to reduce reoffending by providing treatment in prisons for gambling addiction?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Jeremy Wright)]

We recognise that prisoners have a variety of causes for their offending and my hon. Friend is right to highlight one of them. We want to ensure that prisoners have access to the necessary schemes and interventions—both in prison and through the gate to the outside—to deal with whatever their issues may be. I will certainly look carefully at what my hon. Friend says about gambling and at whether more can be done.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Simon Wright and Jeremy Wright

Tuesday 18th December 2012 Commons Chamber

[Simon Wright (Norwich South) (LD)]

T3. Will the Secretary of State seek to make an example of some of the best practice work experience schemes for serving prisoners such as the big society award-winning custody and community project at Norwich’s Chapelfield shopping centre, which is highly effective in cutting reoffending?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Jeremy Wright)]

I certainly agree with my hon. Friend that we want more prisoners to have experiences, such as the one he mentions, in the right controlled conditions, and we want to make sure, as I said, that prisoners have experience of work as well as of work experience.