About to cycle to Brixton Prison where I will be meeting prisoners and seeing the work being done to try and improve the prison's outcomes and generally rehabilitate prisoners to prevent offending on release. Then back to Westminster for the pomp and ceremony of Queens Speech, which sets out the legislation that will the Coalition will try and bring through parliament this year. There is then a debate on its contents at 2.30, which will be robust as this is one of the few times that MPs can question the PM and the Leader of the Opposition. The debate on the contents of the Queens speech is then opened up to other MPs who will debate it over a period of several days.
I will be in the House until at least 10pm tonight as we have to vote then, but have to pop out of the chamber on several occasions, and will also be meeting Mark Harper, my political boss, who I have sorely neglected as a Parliamentary Private Secretary of late. Will definitely be spending more time on Home Office matters in the next few months.
