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Annual reports & ministerial responses

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18 documents

Lay Observers 2024-25 annual report

Published:
Annual Report of the Lay Observers for reporting year 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025.

Broken journeys, broken system – Lay Observers thematic report on transport – ministerial response

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Letter from Lord James Timpson, Minister of State for Justice, to the Lay Observers National Council in response to the Lay Observers thematic report on transport.

Lay Observers 2023-24 annual report – ministerial response

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Letter from Lord James Timpson, Minister of State for Justice, to the Lay Observers National Council in response to the Lay Observers' 2023-24 national annual report.

Lay Observers 2023-24 annual report

Published:
Annual Report of the Lay Observers for reporting year 1 November 2023 and 31 October 2024.

Lay Observers 2022-23 Annual Report – ministerial response

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Letter from Edward Argar MP, Minister of State for Justice, to the Lay Observers National Council in response to the Lay Observers 2022-23 national annual report.

Lay Observers 2022-23 Annual Report

Published:
Annual Report of the Lay Observers for reporting year 1 November 2022 and 31 October 2023.

Lay Observers 2021-22 Annual Report – ministerial response

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Letter from Damien Hinds MP, Minister of State for Justice, in response to the Lay Observers 2021-22 national annual report.

Lay Observers Annual Report 2021-22

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The report summarises the main issues of concern observed during the visits in that period. It recognises the developments initiated to improve the quality of the detainees’ experience.