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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Seventy-eighth report from Session 2022-23

Published 14 February 2024

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The government's response

This document responds to Seventy-Eighth Report - Resettlement support for prison leavers.

This is the government's response, published 14 February 2024.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it agrees with each of the Committee's recommendations on resettlement support for prison leavers, giving target dates for several of them.

  • On inequalities, HMPPS is planning a programme of work to understand disparities in resettlement outcomes, and says that "By April 2025" it will deliver this analysis across prioritised thematic areas.
  • On an action plan, HMPPS will "respond to the Committee by the six-month deadline" and says its plan will aim for "an adequate and consistent resettlement service" for all prison leavers by April 2025.
  • On substance misuse, MoJ and the Department of Health and Social Care will develop a proposal on metrics, and the government says it will publish these metrics routinely, with a target implementation date of summer 2024.
  • On evaluation, impact evaluations are "expected to be complete" by summer 2024, though findings on impact for some initiatives will only be available beyond 2024.

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