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  • Next steps for prison competition

    The latest stage of the competition for eight prisons and a new approach to competing the public prison estate were announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Award for Merseyside Probation Trust

    Merseyside Probation Trust has become the first public sector agency to win the British Quality Foundation’s prestigious UK Excellence Award

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More committal hearings abolished

    Criminals will face justice far more quickly as court committal hearings are abolished in dozens of areas of England and Wales from today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Swifter justice as more committal hearings are abolished

    Criminal Justice Minister Damian Green today announced measures to ensure serious criminals face justice as soon as possible, by abolishing …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New law for missing persons

    Families of missing people will be given help to cope with the complex legal and financial issues they face under plans backed today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Improving the protection of children across borders

    Children from the UK will now have international protection if they move to another country outside the European Union.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New approach to Community Payback begins in London

    A new approach to Community Payback that will see offenders completing tougher, more intensive punishments begins today. Serco, …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More criminals to pay back legal aid

    New measures to help put a stop to convicted criminals who avoid paying back their legal aid bills have been put out to consultation today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government clamps down on legal aid dodgers

    Tough new measures to make sure convicted criminals pay back legal aid have been put out to consultation by Chris Grayling.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Prime Minister sees innovative prison work

    David Cameron saw for himself the work prisons are doing to prevent reoffending when he visited HMP Wormwood Scrubs. During…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Damian Green's speech to the Policy Exchange on 23 October 2012

    Damian Green's speech to the Policy Exchange on 23 October 2012.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New tool to fight economic crime

    A new measure will help prosecutors combat corporate offending including fraud, money laundering and bribery.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Toughening community sentences

    Every adult community sentence will include a form of punishment in radical reforms announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Community sentences to deliver proper punishment

    The Government today publishes the new legislation, in the Crime and Courts Bill, that will mean adult community sentences will now contain a punitive element.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Firearms control: Government response to the consultation

    This written ministerial statement on legislative changes to firearms control was laid in the House of Commons on 22 October 2012 by Damian…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Damian Green: Consultation on revising the crime outcomes recording framework speech to the House

    This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons on 19 October 2012 by Damian Green, and in the House of Lords by Lord Taylor…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Building awareness of human trafficking

    To mark Anti-Slavery day Helen Grant met victims of trafficking.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Flexible courts to speed up court cases

    Dozens of flexible court pilots will speed up cases and help modernise criminal justice services.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Flexible courts to open in dozens of areas

    Thousands more people will benefit from flexible courts, Criminal Justice Minister Damian Green said today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Defamation Bill has second Lords reading

    The Defamation Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords this afternoon.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government