Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons and Probation

Organisations: Ministry of Justice

Responsibilities

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State’s responsibilities include:

• prison operations
• prison reform
• probation services
• probation reform
• prison and probation industrial relations
• foreign national offenders
• extremism
• electronic monitoring
• public protections, including the Parole Board, imprisonment for public protection sentences and serious further offences
• Civil Liability Bill

Previous holders of this role

1. Sam Gyimah

   2016 to 2018

Announcements

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• Increased security measures to give prison officers right tools for the job
  • 22 October 2017
  • Press release
• Prisons Minister visits new graduate recruits as prison officer recruitment reaches record high
  • 22 August 2017
  • News story
• Crackdown on drugs, drones and mobile phones in prisons
  • 09 July 2017
  • Press release
• Probation Champion and Prison Officer of the Year 2017 Awards
  • 23 June 2017
  • Press release
• New squad formed to tackle drone threat to prisons
  • 17 April 2017
  • Press release
• Justice update
  • 28 March 2017
  • Written statement
• Prison Minister Sam Gyimah’s speech at the IMB National Conference
  • 14 March 2017
  • Speech
• Prisons minister visits staff at HMP YOI Winchester to hear concerns from the frontline
  • 03 February 2017
  • Press release
• Huge response to dangerous driving proposals
  • 02 February 2017
  • Press release
• Thousands officially pardoned under 'Turing's Law'
  • 31 January 2017
  • Press release

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