Speeches by Lowe.
Every Hansard contribution by Rupert Lowe this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 341–360 of 493 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I have one question for James.” | 6 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Can I ask James one question? Again, I looked at some public data on the website, and I find that a staggering 10% of probation offenders are foreign.” | 28 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Well, I will leave that on the record, then.” | 9 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “If you have started to test it, you have not been doing it, have you?” | 15 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Why are you not tagging the prisoners when they leave prison, which you are not doing?” | 16 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “What is the penalty for not performing under the contract?” | 10 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “It is quite important, Geoffrey.” | 5 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I started to ask about tagging. As I said, I have spoken to various people I know within the Probation Service, who say there are some extremely skilled staff working in the Probation Service. There are some highly skilled people. Again, I go back to these two reports that I mentioned earlier, one in 2022 to ’24 for Ri…” | 284 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Finally, as we have heard today, they want more money and more staff. I do not think that is the case. They need better organisation and better use of what is available now digitally. The digital revolution has changed things completely. I learned about this alcohol monitoring. That is incredible. There is a huge chang…” | 65 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I do not think you are doing that.” | 8 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Let us start, if we could, with a question to James McEwen. Having done some work over the weekend, I would just like to clear this up. I looked at the latest probation figures. A staggering 10% are foreign, but probably more concerning is that 8% are defined as “not recorded”. The note for “not recorded” in the datase…” | 150 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Given that you are, from reading the documents, keen to increase the amount of community sentences through tagging to take the pressure off the prisons, you have to get this tagging right and the contracts need to be fit for purpose. Has that been addressed? The next time you come here, will it all be running on rails?” | 58 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I am told that there is still up to a two-month wait for people to be tagged. Is that not right?” | 21 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Why not?” | 2 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Is the contract fit for purpose?” | 6 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “There does not seem to be any joined-up thinking between the two, which is illogical. That is why I asked you the question. Would you agree that, if these foreign criminals were deported in a timely way, it would actually take a lot of pressure off the—” | 47 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “We are trying to get at how we sort out the Probation Service for the British taxpayer.” | 17 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “I would just like this question answered, if I can.” | 10 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Would it take pressure off the Probation Service?” | 8 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1235) “Permanent Secretary, this is not my area of expertise, but I have done some research and have some friends who work for the Probation Service who I have spoken to over the weekend. In the NAO report, the one thing that came through to me was that tagging—” | 48 |