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Improving resettlement support for prison leavers

Status: Closed Opened: 16 May 2023 Closed: 14 Feb 2024 18 recommendations 9 conclusions 1 report

Reoffending has significant costs to society. This includes direct financial losses to victims and the costs that the criminal justice system must meet, from running police investigations and court hearings, to holding offenders in prisons and ensuring their effective supervision in the community. In 2019, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) estimated that reoffending across all …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Seventy-Eighth Report - Resettlement support for prison lea… HC 1329 11 Nov 2023 27 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
25 Recommendation Seventy-Eighth Report - Resettlement su… Deferred

MoJ's prison capacity expansion plans face significant funding and inflationary challenges.

MoJ told us it has multiple options to increase prison capacity, including building new prisons and refurbishing the existing estate. MoJ told us it plans to increase prisoner capacity by 20,000 places at a cost of £3.8 billion, but it will need more funding after 2024–25 to bring its planned …

Government response. The government accepted the recommendation in principle and committed to responding to the Committee by May 2024 with projections for prison population, new prisons, and resettlement demand. They will also publish a new independently scrutinised annual statement on prison capacity, …
HM Treasury
27 Recommendation Seventy-Eighth Report - Resettlement su… Deferred

Probation Service faces significant increase in demand for resettlement services

As these additional prisoners progress through their sentences, there will be higher demand for resettlement services. MoJ’s central estimate in its recent modelling work on forecast volumes of prison leavers starting their supervision in the community shows that, while projections are uncertain, the Probation Service may need to supervise around …

Government response. The government agrees and will respond to the Committee by May 2024 with projections for the prison population and demand for resettlement services. They will also publish a new annual statement on prison capacity and update on prison build, and …
HM Treasury

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
8 Jun 2023 Amy Rees · HMPPS, Antonia Romeo · Ministry of Justice, James McEwen · Ministry of Justice, Jim Barton · HM Prisons and Probation Service View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
25 Sep 2023 — Correspondence from Amy Rees, Chief Executive, HM Prison and Probation Service,…