Speeches by Cox.

“If someone does not turn up and you are expecting them, what happens?”

“Would it not be massively useful to you as an organisation to have that data?”

“Can you not chase it down?”

“Yes, thank you. Going back to CAS2, would you say there is enough provision currently?”

“I was all ready to do so. Since you raised the Sentencing Bill and the reforms coming our way, they are likely to lead, are they not, to an increased use of community supervision, as we know, and an increased demand on let’s call it offender accommodation, broadly defined? How are you as a sector preparing for that inc…”

“Thank you. They are all my questions.”

“When we are talking about people who are released on licence, at what point do you find out that they are about to be released on licence? How do you know what their housing needs are?”

“Yes. Is there a significant difference between women’s experience of this service, would you say?”

“What is the scale of Nacro’s involvement in this provision?”

“We will broaden out the discussion to the CAS2 provision and I will direct my comments to Peter, if I may. Could you provide an overview of the CAS2 accommodation, how it works and the differences for provision for women as well, please?”

“You are the only provider.”

“Going back to some of the work we did earlier in this Committee about when people are released from prison and they do not have anywhere to go, despite all the provision we are discussing today, how do those gaps happen? How is it that someone walks out of prison with nowhere to go?”

“Bringing up people as well, yes.”

“Good afternoon. I am Pam Cox. I am the MP for Colchester. My interests are as declared on the register, but I am also the chair of the APPG on penal reform.”

“That is what I am trying to get at. What is the mechanism by which they fall through the net and how can we collectively close that? We also heard from people that suicide risk is much higher if people are not securely housed within two weeks of leaving prison. That was a very clear steer we had. Does anyone else want …”

“I am glad to hear that local council elections will go ahead in 2026, and I welcome the significant investment into the six priority new mayoral areas. I also welcome the fact that Greater Essex—my part of the world—will have the opportunity to complete much-needed local government reform before we elect our inaugural …”

“I welcome the work of the Angiolini inquiry into the appalling murder of Sarah Everard. I also welcome the Minister’s update on the Government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls over the next decade. She knows that representatives from four Select Committees met recently to help to do our bit to advan…”

“The governance of jury trials has changed considerably over time—dramatically so in the 19th century, and again in the 1970s. In both cases, that was to improve public access to justice. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that if our traditions are to endure, including our legal traditions, they need to adapt?”

“In the east of England, we welcome the Government and private sector investment in Sizewell C, and a clean energy supply chain that will stretch from Suffolk through to Essex. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Budget offers tax incentives to start-ups and scale-ups in that sector, which will help that supply cha…”

“In October this year, I was pleased, along with other parliamentarians, to meet a senior member of UNRWA as part of our work with the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He told us how vital it was that UNRWA’s programme of aid be fully restored, given the conditions that my hon. Friend and others have desc…”