MPs to question Prisons Minister Lord Timpson on rehabilitation

Tuesday, 16 June at 2.30pm Wilson Room, Portcullis House

The Justice Committee will question Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending during the fifth and final evidence session of the second part of its inquiry on Rehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffending.

MPs on the cross-party committee, chaired by Labour MP Andy Slaughter, will also question two senior officials from HM Prison and Probation Service. The session is likely to focus on transitioning from custody to the community, including the issues of electronic monitoring, employment, accommodation and probation service capacity. Discussion may also include

prisoners released in error, IPPs and criminal records reform.   

The Committee's first report of this inquiry focusing on rehabilitation in prisons, published last November, concluded prison overcrowding, staffing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure is having a profound impact on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation'.

Witness Tuesday, 16 June             

 2.30pm

• Lord Timpson, OBE, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Ministry of Justice
• Matt Grey, Executive Director, Rehabilitation and Change, HMPPS
• Jim Barton, Executive Director, Capacity Implementation, HMPPS