Justice and Home Affairs Committee

3 November 2026

Justice and Home Affairs Committee Actual start House of Lords

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22:04 - 22:05
Okay. 
22:05 - 22:33
Speaker 3
Okay, order, the meeting is now being recorded and public proceedings are beginning.  5, 4  Welcome, everybody, and to this meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee.  Following up our work on prisons, we are absolutely delighted we've got Dame Anne Owers with us today.  Dame Anne, if you'd be kind enough to just introduce yourself and your background. 
22:33 - 22:54
Speaker 2
Thank you, Lord Chairman.  I'm Anne Owers, and I was, for nine years, Chief Inspector of Prisons and after that, I ran the Independent Police Complaints Commission, as it then was, and have also been national chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards in prisons.  And currently, I chair the Howard League. 
22:54 - 22:57
Speaker 1
Thank you very much.  Lord Turl? 

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