Oral QuestionDepartment for Transport

“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 14 November 2024Answered: 21 November 2024

Asked by

Joe Morris

Labour — Hexham

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Transport

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending (Catherine McKinnell)

I absolutely agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I am working with Cabinet colleagues to make sure that prison officers who have worked hard all their lives in, as he says, incredibly challenging circumstances get the retirement they deserve.