Ministerial role

Minister of State

Organisations: Ministry of Justice

Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for:

Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation

  • Prison operations, policy, reform and industrial relations
  • Probation policy and operations
  • Youth justice
  • Parole
  • Offender health
  • Offender Cohorts
  • Extremism
  • Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
  • Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) schemes
  • Drugs
  • Reducing reoffending
  • Female offenders
  • Foreign National Offenders

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Edward Argar MP

    2022 to 2024