Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that adequate (a) funding and (b) other support is allocated to female prisoners on release from custodial sentences to assist with their reintegration into society.

Community Rehabilitation Companies are contracted to provide ‘through-the-gate’ support to all female offenders on release from custody, and we are engaging with providers about how we can do more to improve the delivery of resettlement services.

We are committed to ensuring that the complex needs of this vulnerable cohort of offenders are met as they are released from custody, and will provide more details in our strategy for female offenders, which we will publish later this year.