Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Brine and Charlie Elphicke

Tuesday 18th March 2014 Commons Chamber

[Steve Brine (Winchester) (Con)]

4. What steps he is taking to reduce reoffending by persistent offenders.

[Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)]

6. What progress he has made on his reforms to rehabilitation aimed at reducing reoffending.

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

On 13 March 2014, the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 received Royal Assent. This Act addresses the gap that sees 50,000 short-sentenced prisoners—those most likely to reoffend—released on to the streets each year with no support, by providing those offenders with supervision in the community for the first time in recent history.