Oral Question·Treasury
“What assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing sector-specific access to extended bounce back loans as part of the Government's covid-19 recovery strategy.”
Tabled: 1 July 2020Answered: 7 July 2020
Asked by
Dr Luke Evans
Conservative — Hinckley and Bosworth
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Sir Nicholas Dakin)
We continue to support IPP offenders through our updated action plan, which contributed to a 9% decrease in IPP offenders in prison in the last year, but we will not put public protection at risk. The Prisons Minister in the other place and I continue to meet regularly with MPs, peers and other stakeholders to work together on supporting this cohort.