Lord Timpson OBE
Biography
Lord Timpson (OBE) was appointed Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending on 5 July 2024. Prior to his appointment he held the position of chief executive of the Timpson Group, from 2002 to July 2024, a company which is known for advocating for the employment of former prisoners.
Lord Timpson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2011 for services to training and employment for disadvantaged people. He was made chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending (EFFRR) until 2016, and became the chair of the Prison Reform Trust that same year. He also founded the Employment Advisory Board network across the prison estate, which links prisons with employers to improve the employment opportunities for former offenders upon release.
Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending
- Prison capacity and related policy
- Prison operations, policy, reform, and industrial relations
- His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service administration
- Probation demand
- Probation policy and operations, industrial relations, and transparency
- Prisoner Escort Contracts
- Reducing Reoffending
- Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) schemes
- Electronic Monitoring (EM)
- Foreign National Offenders
- Home Detention Curfew (HDC)
- Offender Cohorts
- Female Offenders
- Offender health and drugs
- Parole based victim engagement.
- Parole policy
- Counter Terrorism
- Sustainability
- Cross-cutting Digital, Data and transformation