The Review of Gender Equality

Part of 4. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 4:26 pm on 11 December 2018.

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Photo of Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar Conservative 4:26, 11 December 2018

Leader of the house, in February, the former chief inspector of prisons called for a women's prison to be opened in Cardiff to allow female prisoners to serve their sentences in Wales. Lord Ramsbotham said it was deplorable that there is no provision in Wales and that female prisoners have to be sent to England, away from their families and their friends. I think it's not agreeable in this century, anyway. Do you agree with Lord Ramsbotham that—? What discussions have been taking place between the Welsh Government and the Ministry of Justice on providing a women's prison for Wales, please?