Member

“With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a Statement on the youth justice system in England and Wales. I am today publishing a White Paper, with a once-in-a-generation set of reforms to build a youth justice system that intervenes early, responds more effectively and does more to turn young lives around, so that we can better protect the public. I am very grateful to the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my honourable friend the Member for Rother Valley, Jake Richards, and, before him, my honourable friend the Member for Scunthorpe, Sir Nicholas Dakin, for all their hard work in getting us to this point.