Oral Question·Department for Education
“What assessment she has made of the potential effect of changes to student finance rules on young people’s social mobility.”
Tabled: 22 November 2022Answered: 28 November 2022
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Shabana Mahmood)
The last Government gave the public plenty of reasons to lose confidence in the justice system, including a rising courts backlog and prisons on the edge of collapse. We have already averted a crisis in our prisons, and have raised Crown court capacity to a 10-year high. We are now embarking on reform of our courts and our prisons. The work of restoring confidence in the justice system has started. It will, of course, take some time.