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No doubt, there will be a wide range of motivations and background circumstances behind people’s access to the new self-identification gender recognition certificates.
I welcome the letter from the Government dated 26 April, which, in a paragraph headed “Consultation and Engagement”, simply talks about the failure to publish the business and regulatory impact assessment.
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Date answered:
18 April 2017
However, prisons are not informed in advance of the date or time of rota visits, only which IPM(s) will attend during any given week so the significant majority of monitoring visits conducted are unannounced.
There is a lot of co-operation. Media news coverage means that we always hear about disagreements—bad news and disagreements make for better headlines than co-operation does.
It is more than that. In fact, the new conduct regulations that we hoped to bring in with the birth of the new single service have now come into being, and they are certainly designed around an intention to have earlier resolution and to be more managerially based.