Today, Politics UK reported that new evidence has emerged that Chris Grayling misled the Commons when he denied that a lottery system had been used to move probation staff to private firms.
Earlier this month the Justice Secretary told MPs during Justice Oral Questions that the allegation was ‘absolute nonsense’. Labour MP Toby Perkins later told Mr Grayling that he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record and the Justice Secretary wrote back by hand, saying: ‘You can raise it all you like. Selection was not done by drawing names from a hat’.
Now however the new Justice Minister, Andrew Selous, has admitted in a parliamentary answer to Sadiq Khan, that the allocations had been done by lottery where other methods had not worked.
Read the full report in Politics UK