Catherine Fookes

Catherine Fookes

Labour — Monmouthshire

Speaking in the House of Commons on 11 November 2025

Debate

Prisoner Releases in Error

Contribution

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Having spoken to my prison governor in Monmouthshire this weekend, I know the burden that clerks and prison officers are under when they are calculating these sentences on paper. The brass neck of the Conservatives is quite something to be believed. Their own party grandee William Hague has said that “the Conservative Government failed to grasp either that they had to build more prison places or that they had to let people out, and they did not want to face up to either.” Can the Secretary of State say how we are tackling both?

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