Sarah Pochin

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will establish a cross-government protocol with the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care setting out roles, referral routes and timescales between schools, police forces and health se

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to require enhanced training for headteachers, Designated Safeguarding Leads and school governors on the handling of child-on-child sexual abuse, including training on record keeping, victim

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department monitors local authority compliance with their duty under section 19 of the Education Act 1996 to provide suitable education without delay for children who are out of school following inciden

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms currently allow Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to conduct targeted safeguarding inspections where there is evidence of systemic mishandling of child-on-child sexual abuse; and i

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce national response timescales for schools and local authorities to investigate allegations of child on child sexual abuse, to provide written outcomes to families and to advise parents on i

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to create an independent stage of complaint for parents in safeguarding cases where a school or governing body has already determined its own conduct in relation

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Offences against Children: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure there are enforceable lines of accountability between schools, governing bodies, local authorities, including Local Authority Designated Officers, Ofsted and the In

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the supply of illegal drugs into prisons, including through improved searching, staff screening and security technology.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug related incidents were recorded in prisons in each of the past five years, including instances of possession, supply and related violence.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisoners tested positive for illegal drugs on arrival and during their time in custody in the latest period for which data is available.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent trends in the availability and use of illegal drugs within the prison estate.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the impact of the scale of erroneous prisoner releases on public confidence and public safety.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to prevent mistaken releases of prisoners; and whether he plans to (a) allocate additional resource for and (b) implement systemic reforms to prisoner-release protocols.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Crimes of Violence and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the prisoners mistakenly released since April 2025 were convicted of violent, sexual or other serious offences; and what assessment he has made of the danger to the public posed by those still at larg

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) accuracy and (b) oversight of prison release date calculations.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to early release schemes on the accuracy of release date calculations.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects the investigation into releases in error led by Dame Lynne Owens to be (a) completed and (b) published.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the investigation into releases in error led by Dame Lynne Owens has reported any interim findings.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who were held beyond their lawful release dates but did not submit claims for compensation.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

HMP Pentonville: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the findings of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons regarding release date errors at HMP Pentonville.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of staff shortages in offender management units on errors in calculating prisoners release dates.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of prisoners who are held in custody beyond their lawful release dates.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sum of compensation paid per day is to prisoners who have been held in custody beyond their lawful release dates.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were held in custody beyond their lawful release dates in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the total compensation paid was.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were held in custody beyond their lawful release dates in each of the past ten years; and what the total amount of compensation paid was in each year.

8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of prisoners kept in custody beyond their lawful release dates over the past ten years.

8 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received legal advice on the PATHWAYS trial.

8 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussion she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the estimate of the number of grooming gangs operating in Manchester.

8 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Liverpool

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussion she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the estimate of the number of grooming gangs operating in Liverpool.

8 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grooming gangs her Department is aware of operating in London.