Prison reform inquiry

Inquiry by the Justice Committee, 5 July 2016 to 23 October 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 12th Report - Prison reform: governor empowerment and prison performance (7 April 2017)
• 14th Report - Prison reform: Part 1 of the Prisons and Courts Bill (28 April 2017)
• 2nd Special Report - Government Responses to the Committee’s Reports of Session 2016–17 on (a) Prison reform: governor empowerment and prison performance (b) Prison reform: Part 1 of the Prisons and Courts Bill (23 October 2017)

Evidence sessions

• 15 November 2016: Session cancelled/postponed
• 29 November 2016: Sam Gyimah MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons and Probation, Ministry of Justice, Michael Spurr, Chief Executive, National Offender Management Service
• 14 December 2016: Ian Bickers, Executive Governor, HMP Wandsworth, Nick Pascoe, Executive Governor, HMP High Down and HMP Coldingley, Ian Blakeman, Executive Governor, HMP Holme House and HMP&YOI Kirklevington Grange, Neil Richards, Executive Governor, HMP Ranby, Louise Spencer, Governor, HMP High Down, Nigel Hirst, Governor, HMP Ranby
• 18 January 2017: Professor Alison Liebling, Director, Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Mat Ilic, Justice Strategy Director, Catch 22, Julian Le Vay, Eleonora Harwich, Researcher, ReformAndrea Albutt, President, Prison Governors' Association, Ralph Valerio, National Vice Chair, Prison Officers' Association, Peter Dawson, Prison Reform Trust
• 31 January 2017: Helen Boothman, Secretary, Association of Members of Independent Monitoring Boards, John Thornhill, President, National Council of Independent Monitoring Boards, Elizabeth Moody, Deputy Ombudsman Complaints (Office of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman)Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, John Wadham, Chair, National Preventive Mechanism
• 21 February 2017: Amy Rice, Deputy Director, Prison Safety and Reform lead on Empowerment and Accountable Governors, Ministry of Justice, Nina Champion, Head of Policy, Prisoners' Education Trust / Prisoner Learning Alliance, Nathan Dick, Head of Policy and Communications, ClinksKate Davies,Director of Public Health, Armed Forces and their Families and Health & Justice, NHS England, Dr Rachael Pickering, Co-chair, BMA Forensic Medicine Committee, Dr Eamonn O'Moore, Public Health England and Director, the UK Collaborating Centre to the WHO Health in Prisons Programme
• 28 February 2017: Janine McDowell, Chief Operating Officer, Justice UK and Ireland, Sodexo, Jerry Petherick, Managing Director Custodial and Detention Services,G4S, Julia Rogers, Managing Director, Justice and Immigration, Serco, Nigel Taylor, Managing Director, Carillion ServicesSam Gyimah MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice