News releases
- Draft legislative programme: new proposals to empower the individual
- 14 May 2008
- New proposals to give protection to victims and witnesses in court are among those set out in the Draft Legislative Programme.
- Ministers host forum to get more prisoners into work and away from crime
- 13 May 2008
- Ministers David Hanson and David Lammy have launched a fresh drive to increase the number of organisations involved in employing former prisoners and cutting reoffending.
- Quarterly mortgage and landlord possession statistics
- 09 May 2008
- Figures showing the numbers of mortgage and landlord possession actions in the county courts of England and Wales for the first quarter of 2008.
Announcements
- National Statistics releases
- 09 May 2008
- Details of statistical updates on juvenile and adult reoffending, the average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders, and mortgage and landlord possessions.
- Freedom of information survey
- 08 May 2008
- University College London is conducting an online survey on the impact of the Freedom of Information Act, and is seeking views from anyone who has requested information from a central government department.
- New national reoffending measures - a guide
- 07 May 2008
- An explanation of changes to the way the government is measuring reoffending rates.
Speeches
- Prison Officers Assocation conference
- 09 May 2008
- Jack Straw has given a speech at the Prison Officers Association conference.
- The role of restorative justice
- 30 April 2008
- Jack Straw has made a speech on the role of restorative justice on the tenth anniversary of the Restorative Justice Consortium.
- Speech at youth crime conference
- 03 April 2008
- Justice Minister David Hanson has given a speech at an annual youth crime conference organised by Nacro, the crime reduction charity.