HC Deb 20 May 1999 vol 331 c441W
Mr. Derek Twigg

To 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 reoffending. [85232]

Mr. Straw

Sir Duncan Nichol has been appointed as Chair of the Panel. The members of the Panel are in the process of being appointed and their names will be announced in June. The Panel will start work by the autumn.