Speeches by Slade.

“It is not an imminent reopening?”

“Can I challenge then; if they are doing well what is the added value—given that you have to spend a whole load of money—in segregating those children further? I am assuming, as with Feltham, they are in small groups of living anyway.”

“It does, because I will talk briefly to mental health and then move on to transition. When we visited Feltham in January we learned that the enhanced support unit only had six beds available for children with mental health needs. First, in regard to YOIs, is the ESU at Wetherby still closed and when is it expected to r…”

“I am Vikki Slade, Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole. My interests are as per the register, but none is relevant to this Committee.”

“That is helpful to know because I was thinking they are literally going out into—”

“Great. My more substantive question is around the 60% of the children in the YOIs who do not receive a custodial sentence. We visited a YOI a few months ago and it was quite mortifying as to how little education some of those young people were getting, for various reasons. The report I have read says that only 12% of y…”

“If 60% will not get a custodial sentence that presumes that there is a significant number of young people who are guilty, are deemed to have served their sentence because they have been on remand for up to 230 days; they are the ones at risk presumably of reoffending behaviours. I suppose my question is: if you cannot …”

“My hon. Friend’s expertise in this area is impressive. I recently spent a shift with the South Western ambulance service and saw how critical it was for that service to be able to access both GP and hospital data—we had a lady who had had a heart attack, and we did not know who she was. Does my hon. Friend agree that t…”

“A report by the charity MYTIME Young Carers, which is based in Broadstone but works across the country, found that young carers are twice as likely as their classmates to be persistently absent and, shockingly, more than twice as likely to face school suspensions. Young carers are now included in the school census, but…”

“You will be aware, Mr Speaker, that Lib Dems are great at fixing the church roof. In Sturminster Marshall, the community is going further with Project Welcome, which will repair and modernise the space, creating a warm, safe and accessible church that is integral to the community. However, the closure of the listed pla…”

“I rise to present a petition about Upton Heath in my constituency and note my personal interest as a regular user and contributor to the fundraiser. Alongside helping to raise almost £110,000 in two weeks via a crowdfunder, the 1,763 petitioners and I note the importance of Upton Heath as a natural asset for the wide r…”

“I am so glad that he made it to the Chamber in time. Will he comment on the fact that families who live in very old properties—I have properties on Charborough Park and in Shapwick that are National Trust properties or belong to old estates—are already facing much higher costs to run their homes because they are solid-…”

“Q8. Will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating Dorset Wildlife Trust and the people of Dorset on their incredible efforts to secure Upton heath for nature, after part of this internationally designated site was put up for sale after decades-old planning consent was being used for mineral extraction? We worked ar…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“Hello, I am Vikki Slade, Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole. My interests are as per the register, but I have none related to this Committee.”

“Give me an example of how you are actively doing that.”

“I want to focus on your work on access to justice. One piece of written evidence submitted to this inquiry suggested that access to justice is actually “not a strategic priority” of the Legal Services Board and that, potentially, the narrow make-up of the Board—with its very limited number of people with any background…”

“Who are you working with to make sure that that information gets down to people who are visiting food banks or people who have turned up at the courts? There are all sorts of organisations, and I am not necessarily going to go looking for something. I am interested to know how you work with real-world organisations, ra…”

“Yes, I was going to ask you to provide examples of how you interpret your obligation to make that happen.”

“That is a really good point, and I suppose it comes back to my first comment, about the makeup of the board and how you get there. I am with you, Sarah—I have never heard of them either, and I was a leader of a council, so I am sure it is something that would have come through. How do you hold the organisations that yo…”