Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to publish an update on their progress against the recommendations made by Lord Farmer, in his review entitled, The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners' Family Ties, published in August 2017.

We expect to complete the final recommendation from Lord Farmer’s 2017 Review of Strengthening Family Ties in the male prison estate in the next few months. Recommendations from this review have been instrumental in supporting the organisation to take a strategic approach to our overall aim to embed the importance of family and significant others in reducing reoffending and preventing intergenerational crime.