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HM Prison and Probation Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to expand peer-led initiatives in prisons and probation services.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
5 Feb 2025
Answer
11 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to expand peer-led initiatives in prisons and probation services.

  2. 5 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Peer mentoring already plays an important role in supporting rehabilitation within prison and probation services. It is currently used in various ways, including providing lived experience insights of probation community requirements, and direct one-to-on...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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