Speeches by Munt.

“That is across all four types.”

“Is not trauma-informed practice basic? Am I being naive? I am being naive.”

“I am going slightly off brief. One of you gave the example of a woman who was fitting. I would have thought, first, it was absolutely fundamental and basic training for any officer. Secondly, when somebody comes into a prison, where you might know that they have a history of a particular medical condition or situation,…”

“Not “delivered”.”

“You said “offered” to the prison staff.”

“What capacity and what facility is there? How much trauma-informed practice is there across the women’s estate?”

“The Ministry of Justice said that “each women’s prison has a bespoke regime design, aligned to the needs of women”. That sounds slightly questionable, bearing in mind what you have been saying. I wondered what the regime looks like for women particularly, as opposed to men. We have been talking about the general estate…”

“I will talk to the Chair about this afterwards rather than diverting the process now. Thank you very much. Let me move to young offenders. I wondered how the regime model differed for young offenders.”

“Thank you for what you have said, which is really helpful. Generally, though, do male and female young offenders have different regimes? No? Are they all shoved in together?”

“My name is Tessa Munt. I am a director of Whistleblowers UK, which is a non-profit making organisation.”

“King Lifting Ltd is a west country firm that operates mostly mobile cranes across the UK. The company holds a Home Office licence for sponsorship, but cannot employ the heavy crane operators it needs. The work is not for everyone because it involves long stays away from home working on major infrastructure projects, su…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Bradley Thomas) on calling this debate and I also congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller), Hazel Grove (Lisa Smart), South Cambridgeshire (Pippa Heylings), Taunton and Wellingto…”

“I thank my hon. Friend, and I add Tiverton and Minehead to my list. First, let me quote one of the people who wrote to me. They said: “It’s such a great scheme because the volunteers who raise money for church repairs find it such hard work making multiple lengthy applications for grants with usually little to show in …”

“I refer the House to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and particularly to the fact that I am a director of WhistleblowersUK, a not-for-profit organisation. I am the last remaining MP of the seven Members of the House of Commons who originally called on Theresa May to hold an independent inquiry into child s…”

“Many of us will remember the devastation that the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001 caused in rural England. I am pleased that the Government have restricted commercial imports of susceptible animals and personal imports of animal products. However, I was reminded yesterday by James, a farmer in my area, that …”

“We did a visit to the central London county court, which seemed to be a place of vast quantities of paper, yet the Ministry of Justice’s digital strategy 2025 says that its objective is to “strip out paper, unnecessary hearings, forms and duplication”. I wondered how that was going, and whether you would like to update…”

“Three years?”

“I am just making the point that victims and witnesses are looking at 2027-28. That is a very long way ahead. They will want certainty that there is some end to all of this.”

“I want to mention the shocking damage to tourism, given the number of people who leave Paddington and try to go west. My constituents are stunned to find that all this has only just come to light—my hon. Friend referred to six years of closure; I have heard seven, and we all know that projects overrun. I also want to r…”

“We understand that the headquarters has had an increase of 66% in its staff, an extra 3,000 full-time staff in the last five years. That is all about programme delivery data and digital. We have heard already about the digital stuff and data. The frontline, which you have described, of prisons and probation is under se…”