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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

The right to family life: children whose mothers are in prison inquiry

Inquiry by the Human Rights (Joint Committee), 13 September 2018 to 13 September 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 13 February 2019: Lina and Georgia; Witness B and Witness A
  • 20 February 2019: Dr Jo Easton, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy and Research, Magistrates Association, Dr Jenny Earle, Programme Director, Prison Reform Trust, Dr Shona Minson, Academic Criminologist, University of Oxford, and Lord Justice Holroyde, Chair, Sentencing Council.
  • 6 March 2019: Lucy Baldwin, Senior Academic and Researcher, De Montfort University, Stuart Harrington, National Information Centre on Children of Offenders, Barnardo's, and Dr Samantha Callan, advisor to Lord Farmer; Naomi Delap, Director, Birth Companions, and Dr Laura Abbott, Senior Lecturer, Department of Allied Health and Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire (at 4.00pm).
  • 13 March 2019: Edward Argar MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice, Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education