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Annual reports & ministerial responses
18 documents
Lay Observers 2024-25 annual report
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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
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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.