Policy papers and consultations

Sets out progress in delivering the 51 commitments in the female offender strategy delivery plan.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 9 May 2024

• Female offender strategy delivery plan: 'one year on' progress report

  The Female Offender Strategy (2018) set out our approach to improving…

This delivery plan sets out how government will deliver 4 key priorities to reduce women’s offending over the 2022 to 2025 period.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 21 March 2024

Factsheets giving details of the different measures contained in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 August 2022

• Overarching Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  What are we going to do? Back our police by equipping officers with the…

• Audio and video live links: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  What are we going to do? Video remand hearings in police stations We will…

• Community sentences: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  In the recent White Paper ‘A Smarter Approach to Sentencing’, the…

• Criminal damage to memorials: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  Increasing the maximum penalty for criminal damage of less than £5,000 to…

• Extraction of information: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  1. What has the Government done to improve practice around the extraction…

• Homicide reviews: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  1. What has been introduced? The Act allows for a requirement to be placed…

• Imprisonment for Public Protection: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  It is clear that there is huge support for [the IPP] amendment … around…

• Making misogyny a hate crime: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 factsheet

  The Law Commission concluded in its ‘Hate Crime Laws: Final Report (PDF,…

• Management of terrorist offenders: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  1. What are we going to do? We will give the police three new powers to…

• Noise-related provisions: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet

  1. What are we going to do? The Act widens the range of situations in…

A strategy to cut crime and protect the public with a modern, secure prison estate designed to rehabilitate prisoners.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 28 July 2022

Our Electronic Monitoring Strategy sets out our vision for a robust, innovative, and data-driven electronic monitoring offer for our criminal justice system.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 30 June 2022

Independent review of the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) used to supervise terrorist and terrorism-risk offenders

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 17 December 2020

This document provides the government response to the Justice Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2017 to 2019: Transforming Rehabilitation.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 17 June 2019

Memorandum of Understanding between Greater Manchester and the Ministry of Justice.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 31 May 2019

A summary of proposals setting out what the Ministry of Justice is doing to make prisons places of safety and reform.

• From: Ministry of Justice and 1 others
• Updated: 17 November 2016

The review on transgender offenders informs new policy on their management by the National Offender Management Service.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 9 November 2016

An overview of, and government response to, the review into Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice.

• From: Ministry of Justice and 1 others
• Updated: 22 August 2016

What the government is doing to reduce reoffending to reduce the number of victims and the cost to the taxpayer.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 8 May 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

List of issues the Ministry of Justice is monitoring to ensure operational robustness of rehabilitation delivery services.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 23 September 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Government response to the Justice Select Committee report.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 3 September 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

List of prisons earmarked for the resettlement of prisoners into their local community.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 15 August 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Describes how the rehabilitation system will work.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 30 May 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Consultation on the draft statutory instrument that enacts the technical changes to the local government pension scheme.

• From: Ministry of Justice and 1 others
• Updated: 12 May 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Strategic priorities for female offenders and announced the establishment of a Minister-led Advisory Board to advise on implementation.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 27 March 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This review aims to identify properly the reasons for ex-Service personnel ending up in the justice system and how support can be improved.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 13 March 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

We are seeking a wide range of views on the government’s plans for placing high quality education at the centre of youth custody.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Updated: 17 January 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government