Oral Question·Ministry of Justice
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 28 January 2026Answered: 3 February 2026
Asked by
Bob Blackman
Conservative — Harrow East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Justice
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Jake Richards)
The hon. Gentleman is right to raise reoffending. It is why the Government are making a record £700 million investment in our Probation Service—a 45% increase—to try to fix a service that the last Conservative Government broke completely. That is the best and only way we will deal with the prison capacity crisis and clamp down on reoffending.