Lord Chancellor to appear before Lords Committee
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee is questioning Rt. Hon. Alex Chalk KC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.
Meeting details
At 10:30am: Oral evidence
Work
Ministry of Justice oral evidence session (Non-inquiry session)
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice at Ministry of Justice
The Committee is asking a wide range of questions on topics in the Lord Chancellor’s portfolio, including questions on prison capacity, the resources of the Probation Service, and the Government’s policy on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Possible questions and topics
- What guarantees can you provide to us, and to foreign judicial authorities, that ECHR minimum standards are met in prisons in England and Wales?
- If community sentences are to be used more to reduce the prison population, how will you ensure that they are as effective as they can be? Will the increased recourse to Community Sentence Treatment Requirements be accompanied with an increase in funding for treatment service providers?
- The workload of the Probation Service, and what steps are being taken to increase retention
- The Government’s intention to introduce an obligation that defendants appear in the dock to be sentenced
- Reforms to the Parole System
- How can IPP prisoners demonstrate that they can be released safely, and what support is available to them?
- What are the latest developments on the UK’s application to the Lugano Convention?
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