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Prison provision in Wales inquiry

Inquiry by the Welsh Affairs Committee, 11 January 2018 to 24 July 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 27 February 2018: Dr Caroline Hughes, Senior Lecturer, Wrexham Glyndwr University, Dr Alyson Rees, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, Dr Robert Jones, Lecturer, University of South Wales, David Fraser, Author and former Senior Probation OfficerFrances Crook OBE, Chief Executive, The Howard League for Penal Reform, Dr Kate Paradine, Chief Executive, Women in Prison, Dr Thomas Guiney, Senior Programme Manager, Prison Reform Trust
  • 27 March 2018: Meri Huws, Welsh Language Commissioner, Guto Dafydd, Senior Compliance Officer for the Welsh Language Commissioner, Reverend Nan Powell-Davies, Assistant Director of Ministries, Presbyterian Church of Wales
  • 17 April 2018: Andy Baxter, National Executive Committee Representative for Wales, Prison Officers Association, Dean Rogers, Assistant General Secretary, Napo, Andrea Albutt, President, Prison Governors Association
  • 22 May 2018: Peter Clarke CVO OBE QPM, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Elizabeth Moody, Acting Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
  • 7 June 2018: Alun Davies AM, Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services, and Martin Swain, Deputy Director of Community Safety, Welsh Government.
  • 10 September 2018: Dr Robert Jones, Research Associate, Wales Governance Centre; Graham Barrett, Governor, HMP Swansea, Nick Dann, Deputy Director, HMP Berwyn, and Janet Wallsgrove, Director, HMP Parc (at 10.20am); Amy Rees, Executive Director for Wales, HM Prison and Probation Service (at 11.30am).
  • 27 November 2018: Evan Jones, Head of Community Services, and Junior Smart, Business Development Manager, St Giles Trust.
  • 15 January 2019: Rory Stewart OBE MP, Minister of State, and Edward Argar MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice.