Speeches by Cox.

“Okay. It would be good to have an update on when those conversations progress.”

“Is the facility classed as supported housing, or supported living, in terms of local authority provision? How do they own it?”

“To go back to the safeguarding question, you said your operatives often raise safeguarding concerns. To whom do they raise them and do you keep a record?”

“This is all part of the push towards more community-focused justice and effective measures in the community to address the prison crisis. You are likely to be taking on additional numbers of tagging cases. How can you do that securely and safely without impacting the services that you already run?”

“On the cost-benefit analysis, I think I am right in saying that every set of avoided care proceedings would save between £50,000 and £100,000 on the proceedings alone.”

“This is all part of the push towards more community-focused justice and effective measures in the community to address the prison crisis. You are likely to be taking on additional numbers of tagging cases. How can you do that securely and safely without impacting the services that you already run?”

“Is there some evidence on their impact?”

“Good afternoon. I am Pam Cox. My interests are as declared on the register. I will just add that I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on penal affairs.”

“How many alcohol monitoring tags do you roughly have at the moment?”

“The Government have ordered the biggest expansion of electronic monitoring since 1999. We have discussed the numbers involved in that expansion and your plans to deal with it. In terms of staffing, to ensure you are covered to deal with that expansion, how many staff do you currently employ, how many new staff will you…”

“I know you have got a number of pilots going on at the moment. You talked about the tag at source pilot. I understand there is also the domestic abuse perpetrators on licence pilot, and the acquisitive crime pilot, in which people convicted of theft, burglary or robbery are given additional spatial restrictions. Could …”

“Is there some evidence on their impact?”

“Okay. It would be good to have an update on when those conversations progress.”

“What is your retention rate?”

“Walk us through a typical day for, say, two women who might be on different pathways, or who came in through different ways. How would they spend their day with you?”

“In resettlement and rehabilitation, which is what we are focusing on in this inquiry, what is your success rate?”

“To go back to the safeguarding question, you said your operatives often raise safeguarding concerns. To whom do they raise them and do you keep a record?”

“When you set up Hope Street, how did you reassure the surrounding neighbours that the women there, and particularly those who might visit them, would not pose a risk to their community? I have heard that that can be an issue in other settings.”

“Good afternoon. I am Pam Cox. My interests are as declared on the register. I will just add that I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on penal affairs.”

“That is part of the challenge of cross-departmental working, isn’t it? The MOJ will not necessarily see those savings, but other Departments will.”