| Heading: |
Prisoners: Older People |
| Question ID: |
1806348 |
| UIN: |
54701 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1516 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andy Slaughter
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| Asking Member handle: |
hammersmithandy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@hammersmithandy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of a national older offender strategy to address the health needs of the ageing prison population. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4056 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Nicholas Dakin
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Answer text: |
The Independent Sentencing Review considered issues relating to older cohorts including older prisoners as part of its remit. We have accepted in principle the vast majority of the Independent Sentencing Review’s recommendations and we will work with part... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |