§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made on the appointment of a joint prisons-probation panel to accredit the design and delivery of work with offenders designed to reduce re-offending. [91697]
§ Mr. StrawThe following independent experts have been appointed to the Panel:
Copies of the Report and Plan are being placed in the Library. The Chairman of the Committee is writing with copies to a wide range of interested people and organisations, including all Members with London constituencies, all Members of the European Parliament whose constituencies include London areas, all London Boroughs, all Police Community Consultative Groups and all Lay Visitor Panels.
I am grateful to Sir John Quinton, the Chairman of the Committee and all his colleagues for their advice and other assistance to me, and look forward in particular to working with them on the transition to the new arrangements for the governance of London's policing.