Oral Question·Women and Equalities
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 12 November 2018Answered: 15 November 2018
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
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.